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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Inspection Panel for purposes of evaluation and redress. Taken as a whole, however, these successes have been decidedly limited. In particular, persistent problems in the timing, scope, content, and quality of consultation processes have often limited their View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
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Danelle Radney
strategic plan for the school’s innovative work-study program. “The Social Enterprise Initiative made it possible by matching my salary so that I could afford to live in New York.” In her EC year, Danelle fulfilled an Independent Student... View Details
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1.12 Clearance for Return | MBA
circumstances the student may continue in or return to residence or enrollment. HBS also may independently decide that, based on its observations or other information it has about a student, it should initiate the process of consultation... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Technology Choice and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
Beyda) Sally Wood (photo by Russ Campbell) Joe Abrams (photo by David Beyda) Sally Wood (photo by Russ Campbell) Abrams served in various executive capacities at CBS, Columbia, MGM, and ABC, before setting up his own consulting business... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
months, three of the four tire manufacturers there ceased to exist as independent corporations. In this excerpt from "From Community of Innovation to Community of Inertia: The Rise and Fall of the Akron Tire Cluster," Sull... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
too volatile given the mean reversion in earnings. We show that high current ship earnings are associated with high secondhand ship prices and heightened industry investment in fleet capacity but forecast low future returns. We propose... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity to adopt external knowledge and make internal inventions. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
Totally eliminating friction is unrealistic on the battlefield and at the bargaining table. In both instances, you need the authority and the emotional steadiness to cope in spite of uncertainty. Strategy is further complicated by the fact that the other parties are... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
universally recognized symbol was three golden balls. In twenty-first century China, where the demand for investment capital exceeds the capacity of the nation’s state-controlled financial sector, pawnshops and other informal sources of... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
come with a four-year vest schedule, meaning that you can only earn your equity over time. But data also shows that most employees leave their companies after just two years. That may be worth broader consideration. What is the 409a valuation of the company? The 409a... View Details
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
worldwide. The organization is at a crossroads as it attempts to reach the ambitious goal of serving 10% of the 20 million Egyptians living in poverty by 2023, while at the same time developing the local NGO capacity to serve the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
governments and have the capacity to recruit people from all over the world who will feel comfortable in your organization. You have to make them feel that they can contribute. That’s the biggest challenge, I think. American companies... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
of the ascending chairman and his constituents. That is, a change in chairmanship can only occur if the incumbent retires or is voted out--both of which are entirely independent of what is currently happening in the ascending chairman's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
learned, understandably, is that as vinyl had gone out of fashion in the '80s and leading into the '90s, most of the pressing plants, a lot of which had been owned by major record labels, had closed. We'd moved to the cassette format, then to CDs, and suddenly there... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) noted that small... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
there is excess screen capacity. Many exhibitors are or have been in financial difficulties, and have had to close theaters or screens, resulting in a decline in the total number of screens since 2000. Internationally, there is some room for growth in screens (and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details