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- 05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006
factors associated with successful CRM implementation and advance directions for future research. Old Hand or New Blood? Author:Frank V. Cespedes Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, nos. 7/8 (July-August 2006): 28-40 Abstract Bill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
returns to entering the product market and their profit thresholds. Depending upon the magnitude of these differences, we propose alternative commercialization outcomes. This model helps to explain why user entrepreneurs are likely to spawn the creation of altogether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
million employee assistance fund. Other actions included 50 percent salary reductions for the CEO and directors and a suspension of its 401(k) matching program. Some firms have entered into arrangements with other organizations to help... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
temporary effect on aggregate inflation and no downward effect on other goods. Second, contrary to common beliefs, we find that controlled goods are consistently available for sale. Third, firms compensate for price controls by introducing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
compensation to performance, as they often fail to rein in pay when performance suffers. · Expectations placed on board members have increased. Most notably, Sarbanes-Oxley and the new listing requirements of the public exchanges have... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
curiosity of trying to understand the life of a CEO." But what they did discover should help CEOs learn to be more effective with their time, and provide boards with a new tool to help assess the effectiveness of their chief... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
List, an annual compilation of promising scripts recommended by anonymous Hollywood insiders. In a new working paper, Judgement Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry, Luo and her two co-authors—Jeffrey... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary product. Innovation through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
chaos of his desk belied a very careful, systematic way of working. I met Al in the early 1990s, when he must have been in his mid- to late 70s. I remember looking at his raincoat, jacket, and tie—I almost never saw Al in anything but a jacket and tie—and thinking how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
dominant means of communication within companies. Our particular interest is in how organizations coordinate across their many internal divisions (e.g., functions, business units, geographic offices, pay grades, job ranks). Studying electronic communication networks... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds Authors:John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
evolved in some organizations into policies that gave employees much more information about the activities of the enterprise and more voice in determining what they felt they needed to know. Vineet Nayar, vice chairman and joint managing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed primarily to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
private firms (firms incorporated before 1985). Sectors dominated by state-owned and traditional private firms before 1988-1990, with assets, sales, and profits representing shares higher than 50%, generally remained so in 2005. The exception to this broad pattern is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Almost fifty years ago, nineteen-year-old Andy Grove stepped off a boat in New York City, a poor immigrant from Hungary who barely escaped Nazi occupation. A decade later he co-founded Intel, the chipmaker that would help invent the PC... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture philanthropy View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson