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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
profitability, Japan introduced the JPX400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. Index-inclusion incentives led firms to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
goods, and protecting the environment. Baker illustrates how these realities further corrode the commonwealth, with specific, pragmatic measures to reset capitalism so that it once again contributes to shared prosperity and sustained... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Authors:Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They vary widely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
people to think, innovate, and take measured risk outside the core activities of the business; there is more freedom and self-management and less management as we know it; there is more community and less hierarchy; and there is more View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
talks about "open innovation" and his new book. Silverthorne: What's the one take-away you would like your business reader to walk away with from the book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than ten market View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
resources to environmental protection? How should we think about the notion of firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? May they do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Can they do so on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
themselves define the purpose. Share price and profitability may provide indicators of how much value the company is creating for shareholders, but share price and View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
care providers such as doctors and hospitals placing profits before client needs (David Stahl, John Van Slyke, Roger Chen, Jan Fersing, Hugh Quick, among others); the agency problem separating payers such as individuals, businesses, and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
this way: "When the world is full of surprises bosses can hardly control drastic actions to keep surviving and that means employees will get their share of surprises However a good leader will always communicate all possible outcomes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Case 516-059 Ocado In 2015, U.K.–based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/does-america-really-need-manufacturing/ar/1 Choosing the United States Authors:Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract The U.S. is not winning its appropriate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
they used to be protected geographically, but no longer. For decades, a paper like the Post competed against a few local and even fewer national newspapers. (Despite its international reputation, the lion's share of its print revenues... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
It was excerpted from the authors' article "Pricing to Create Shared Value" in the June 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Now survey the landscape of companies, non-profits, NGOs, start-ups, agencies, and other interest groups that share that vision. And if there are none, go start something!" Katie Hsia-Kiung (MBA 2019), Head of Strategy & Business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
survey the landscape of companies, non-profits, NGOs, start-ups, agencies, and other interest groups that share that vision. And if there are none, go start something!" Katie Hsia-Kiung (MBA 2019), Head of Strategy & Business... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate risk aversion with lower profits. We find, however, that foreign banks are more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace