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- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
unpromising situation stepped Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned, illegitimate (and brilliant) native of the West Indies who grew up in St. Croix and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, along with Swiss-born Albert Gallatin and other immigrants,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
started their business, their product line enjoyed little consumer awareness outside New York City. But the couple was determined to build a large market for premium cosmetics. One of the earliest and most important decisions that the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no possibility of appeal, no... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to shift (to a supplier) the risk a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
individuals can increase their service time, up to a point, to complete work more quickly. As the number of tasks increases, however, workers may also manage their workload by a different process—task selection. Drawing on research on workload, individual discretion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. What deters selective disclosure and leads firms to instead make disclosures more representative of their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
universities. The reform studies arrived at most of the same findings and made similar recommendations to prevent or minimize future cost overruns and schedule slippages. But lack of political will, insufficient numbers of government personnel trained and skilled to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
make a global decisions supports, a more global perspective in managing supply chains." Globalization of Retailing A study of three global retailers—Carrefour,Wal-Mart, and Ahold—sheds light on the... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
what has been learned. We need to make informed decisions about the true risk when the real reward is an energy source that can provide US-levels of power consumption to every person on the planet for... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
who enter an industry at precisely the wrong time end up suffering too badly: resilience and decision making on the fly are two traits we try to inculcate in students before they graduate. Describe your... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
go off into the stratosphere Q: Or head south. A: Or head south. It reminds me of the old Civil War hymn: "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side." You've got to View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Cementos Argos in the U.S.: Go Big or Go Home?
By: Jorge Tamayo, Ruth Costas, Pedro Levindo and Karina Souza
In April 2011, Colombian group Cementos Argos had to decide on whether to double down its business in the U.S., amidst the U.S. cement industry’s lowest performance in 30 years. Argos— Colombia’s leading cement producer and one of the “jewels” of Grupo GEA, the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Business Subsidiaries; Talent and Talent Management; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; South America; North and Central America; United States; Colombia
Tamayo, Jorge, Ruth Costas, Pedro Levindo, and Karina Souza. "Cementos Argos in the U.S.: Go Big or Go Home?" Harvard Business School Case 724-500, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- February 2011
- Article
The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination Through Brand Biography
By: Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, Jill Avery and Juliet B. Schor
We introduce the concept of an underdog brand biography (UBB) to describe an emerging trend in branding in which firms author an historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Brand Management; Brands; Brand Building; Brand Positioning; Competitive Positioning; Advertising; Marketing Communication; Biography; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Demand and Consumers; Marketing Communications; Cost vs Benefits; Perspective; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Advertising Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Paharia, Neeru, Anat Keinan, Jill Avery, and Juliet B. Schor. "The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination Through Brand Biography." Journal of Consumer Research 37, no. 5 (February 2011): 775–790. (Finalist, 2014 Best Article Award for a paper published in JCR in 2011.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
By: Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs—a setting in which analysts' ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Initial Public Offering; Price; Reports; Research
Feldman, Emilie Rose, Stuart Gilson, and Belen Villalonga. "When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-102, May 2010.
- January 2009
- Article
Multinationals as Arbitrageurs? The Effect of Stock Market Valuations on Foreign Direct Investment
By: Malcolm Baker, C. Fritz Foley and Jeffrey Wurgler
Empirical evidence of imperfect integration across world capital markets suggests a role for cross-border arbitrage by multinationals. Consistent with multinational arbitrage as a determinant of foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns, we find that FDI flows increase... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Valuation; Capital Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital; Stocks; Integration
Baker, Malcolm, C. Fritz Foley, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Multinationals as Arbitrageurs? The Effect of Stock Market Valuations on Foreign Direct Investment." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 1 (January 2009): 337–369.