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  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

SchmidtHarvard Business School Case 612-082 Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy. The strategy map reveals the strategic chain of cause-and-effect relationships that eventually links investment in employee skills to improved financial performance. As the senior executive of a major bank declared: Partnering... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

long-term growth with disruptive potential, Summa invested in four thematic areas that were mapped to megatrends outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—trends Summa believed presented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
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All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Distinct_Effects_11-023.pdf August 2013 Cambridge Handbook of Institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

Professor Beer argues that both E and O can boost performance. Theory E, however, does not produce long-term sustained improvements. The E transformation at Scott Paper, for example, resulted in some immediate gains for shareholders, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

investing in people even prior to the achievement of results. Context Using examples from sports and business, and responding to numerous listener questions, Professor Kanter discussed her research and conclusions from her most recent... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

issues surrounding short-term versus long-term investment payoffs, the proportion of the portfolio that should be allocated to venture capital, and the most appropriate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

this article, the author suggests that tech pioneers would do well to heed a lesson he’s gleaned from his research in the developing world: For long-term success, companies must invest in the surrounding... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

Abstract—Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

at Crucell since 2009. In September 2009, Johnson & Johnson acquired 18% of Crucell for $400 million. This investment was part of a business development deal. Subsequently, in 2012, Johnson & Johnson acquired Crucell for $2.8... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

Statement. In April 2010, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave his final approval. The Federal Aviation Administration added its approval in May. As the United States attempts to cope with long-term damage on the Gulf Coast from the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

into a professionally managed organization at all levels. Second, he wanted to invest in long-term projects that would expand the business. Actualizing his vision was not an easy task given the family... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

  PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its foreign direct investment (FDI) policies that could affect Tavistock's goals for its long-term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union invested to be managed for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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