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  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

with executives at a multinational corporation and in an executive program at Harvard Business School. Our results suggest that a "novel-based" approach holds considerable promise for use at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

and Tommy Pan Fang of Rice University—looked at communication patterns among more than 12,000 employees working for a large multinational corporation across all major time zones. The team studied their Skype... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • February 1992 (Revised March 1993)
  • Case

Intel Corp.--1992

By: Kenneth A. Froot
Intel Corp., the world's dominant designer and manufacturer of microprocessors (the "brains" of the personal computer), has accumulated a large amount of cash (net of debt). Furthermore, it expects to continue to accumulate cash at an unprecedented rate. Has the... View Details
Keywords: Dividends; Financial Management; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Cash; Technological Innovation; Capital Structure; Investment Return; Equity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

shareholders. These results suggest that the domestic operations of U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and that these firms were reasonably well-governed. The results have important implications for understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • News

From Money to Ministry

Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking exciting. He was interested in View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

locate them in non-mainline business units, such as corporate or philanthropic foundations. Using survey and archival data from 161 Fortune 500 firms, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings reveal how institutional logics serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

and repay CPP funds early. Collectively, the results provide new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. The tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions on corporate policies and actions as the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

accounting "reliability." Broadly, the evidence, by highlighting the influence of standard setters, can broaden our understanding of the political economy of standard setting beyond the role of corporate lobbying. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth century, despite the rise of View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • Web

Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

interested in exploring online education but aren’t sure where to start, this guide is for you. Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational View Details
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

for the survey included primarily middle managers in manufacturing plants, although over time the data collection was extended to other industries, such as retail, schools, and hospitals. The approach was to interview those who were high enough on the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

changing circumstances, both within and outside of the gaming context. Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information Authors:R. G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 4... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

to developing a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard that places economic, environmental, and social objectives as the highest-level objectives. He faces the challenges of cascading the corporate Balanced Scorecard to operating units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Answering the Call

international students do seem more familiar with it from observing it in their own countries. As it happens, the Lincoln Electric Company is now a thriving multinational — and its Cleveland plant remains as successful as ever.” Good... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services