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- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
minimized." Mercadona always takes store operations into account when making supply-chain decisions, Ton continues, and pays particular attention to the design and management of store processes. It also treats labor as an View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
tricks." Individuals raised in an environment of favoritism, nepotism, and cronyism are unlikely to let old habits go. I am afraid, though, that the new government will cause damage for one primary reason: it seeks to suppress any signs of competition,... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
few years, venture philanthropy's overall impact is quite limited. On another front, The Pew Charitable Trusts undertook a new approach in 1997 by creating the Philadelphia Cultural Leadership Program, which demands accountability every... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
generate additional sustainability solutions.” Looking ahead, Terry sees her company as a “technology-enabled service provider for smart IOT (internet of things) assets that are publicly deployed. EV charging stations are just the first... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
automobiles. Unilever and Nestlé account for 40 percent of the entire U.S. ice cream market. Yet quantitative data suggests that the return on assets of foreign-owned companies in the U.S. is consistently... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
it. She, along with her co-founder John Hayes, who years earlier had founded Peachtree Accounting Software, created her own solution by founding NOW Corp in 2010. The concept is simple: A small business with a bill out to any business or... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
who don't know, it's a kind of speaker phone and he had me on speaker phone with John Georges. And Joe was an accountant by training, so he had one of those little ad subtract, multiply, and divide, calculators. This was long before HP... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
emerged that explicitly links leadership and identity. Research and theorizing on leadership development have yet to specify the processes that account for identity transformations in role transitions. This paper proposes a new,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
that arise within the multinational firm, and include: How do I value a firm with assets around the world that are exposed to different country risks and currencies? When should I share ownership with a local partner? How should I... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400 inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%) of the growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
make up. Make use of your assets and liabilities to the maximum." 16 The professor even instituted a lecture for wives of students in the Manufacturing class, in which he outlined his beliefs on the role spouses in the postwar era could... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then, Mumbai in India, came to the United States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
handle account processing. "We're pooling the assets of small, low-income consumers and adapting 401(k) processing machinery to serve them. We're also working on regulatory clearance with the SEC, so in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
investing in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; increasing profits from existing capital investments; reducing assets in activities that earn less than the cost of capital; and reducing the firm’s cost of capital itself.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
technology, but you really have to line up the complementary assets so all the pieces play with you and they are motivated to make it work. At the end of the day, Apple is going to have to make the economics work for everybody. That is a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
markets faster through the existing distribution network of the acquirer, or through the ability to invest quickly in significantly expanded facilities. Compared to an IPO, it allows the careful delineation of accountability and... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details