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  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

  PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

a series of six "filters" to answer this critical question. If a company is going to make the investment required to aggressively pursue an Internet opportunity, management needs to believe in each of the following: Online shopping will quintuple in the next... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

ideas across academic communities. The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies Authors:Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam, and Joshua Ronen Publication:The Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

their current values-has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has implications across the world of business, because the accounting basis-whether fair View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

report a slowdown for the year's first semester. He knew that according to his management philosophy he should leave the primary decisions for the Gucci brand to Gucci's CEO. Yet, given the urgency of the situation, Polet wondered if it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

  PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

Alvarez, and research associate Dan Greenberg (Harvard MBA 2012). Their new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, predicts, among many other things, the continuing decline of major brick and mortar brands... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

stock holders’ but seldom ‘it’s all about the employees and customers.’” Bruce Lloyd argued that there has been too much emphasis on power and too little on values in leadership literature and training. “Leadership is much more concerned... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

issues regarding divergent views amongst the partners, building a brand in a very competitive marketplace, and the stability of the core team. Finally, the firm has been presented with an opportunity to join two other firms in a three-way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

Associates, Robert Waldron turned a company that was in decline in 2008 into a profitable $190-million business 10 years later by developing online learning tools as well as print workbooks for schools. In 2017, the company gifted the majority of its shares, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

There are a couple of things I am working on at this time. One has to do with the negative effects of product variety. The basic premise is that certain types of product variety increase the attractiveness of a brand and other types of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

they also induced large spillovers of technical knowledge in prefectures adjacent to those with prizes, relative to distant control prefectures without prizes. Linking competition expenditures with the expected market value of patents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2021
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Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

to that of the Harvard Business School. Take away the titles and their corporate affiliation and most CEOs would go unrecognized. Their persuasive clout would disappear. Are CEOs representing employees? How about those who don’t support the stance on a particular... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

a tradeoff here, in terms of how similar a product will be around the world and what sort of product range a company will offer," Collis says. Will a company allow for local variation and differences in taste, and what will its differences be, if any, when it comes to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

firms should create value wherever they are. But when we ask what kind of value and for whom, who are the relevant stakeholders, how is work actually going to be implemented on the ground, there are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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