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- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
for the Securities and Exchange Commission to pass rules that would allow for crowdfunding investment on a large scale. Already, companies have dipped their toes into crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
relatively informative about ability but are difficult to influence through managerial effort, may have the unintended consequence of generating inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts. Companies and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike personal networking in pursuit of emotional support or friendship, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2000 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Software Associates
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The president of a small consulting firm has just seen his second-quarter profit and loss statement, showing an increase in revenues but a substantial decline in profits. He asks his chief financial officer to explain the results. The CFO works hard to accumulate... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost; Financial Statements; Production; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Software Associates." Harvard Business School Case 101-038, October 2000. (Revised March 2004.)
- October 1997 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
C-Car
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
C-Car was the first automobile retailer in the United States to go public. Subsequently the owner, Mr. Gilliland, must decide how to invest the capital raised from the public ownership. This case describes in detail C-Car's highly profitable strategy of managing its... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Structural barriers also appear to be impeding bank lending to small businesses, including consolidation within the banking industry, high search costs, and higher transaction costs associated with small... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
them. "The market is smaller than we had anticipated," Johnson said. So far, the brand is struggling to gain market share, and Mercedes-Benz has some high costs to recoup. Johnson estimated it... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technology would provide the country with greater agricultural production, a major source of exports, without the need to convert additional areas of the Cerrado or Amazon to farmland. However, producers have been slow to adopt it due to the initial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
consequences of these changes and shifts for the firm's success, strategy, and organization. A Choice Prediction Competition, for Choices from Experience View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
mankind is looking at the actual cause right now, and consequently that human innovation is not focusing on solving the right problem." Others were concerned about the View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
some IT experts I’ve talked to are surprised by the results.” Why? The cost of software updates—both in terms of time and money—may cause businesses to delay manual updates to vulnerable systems, says Shane... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
Some large multinational marketers, such as Unilever, are shifting research expenditures away from Western Europe and toward emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. Relative to the developed economies,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United States, I flipped to the CNN Climate Town Hall, where Democratic... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
put up to $4 billion per year into high-growth companies. And it does so at no cost to taxpayers. "This public-private partnership is a good example of government and the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
seek economic ways of making both employees and targeted customers know that you value their loyalty—this doesn't require a lot of money; and fourth, work even harder at creating "owners" by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
Questions being asked include: Does corporate accountability reporting have measurable economic consequences for society? What is the effect on the firm? How does the reporting vary according to the relative power of stakeholders such as... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino