Cancer Care In The U.S. - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

shareholders) and treat them well; don’t worry about gurus ... ." While big ideas may have originated, according to at least one study, primarily from the U.S. in recent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2013
First Look

based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when,... View Details

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

research shows that only 45 percent of music files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

company's strategy but with intimate knowledge of how to get things done inside the organization? Bower's analysis of the leadership and performance of S&P 500 companies in... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

the supply of riskless short-term bills. Such reasoning seems to have been borne out in Treasury policy during the height of the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

requires much careful thinking and management initiative. Q: Do you see the current trend of intense customer focus continuing? Shapiro: We believe that an increasing focus on customers is absolutely... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

had faced in twenty years to become the leading U.S. ice cream producer today, with over 1.5 billion dollars in sales View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

Why is this so?" What do you think? Original Article Recent estimates suggest that U.S. business organizations have attained the greatest disparity between the highest and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

treating its employees well. The company provides staffers with free education services to complete high school and supplementary medical care to cover gaps in government... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Chad Sparber looked at changes in applications to U.S. colleges before and after the reduction in the annual quota... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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