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- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
planning for the long term, however, good judo strategists must also be prepared to "pivot," as Rob Glaser (chairman and CEO of RealNetworks) says. "When we make trade-offs between short-term gain and long-term... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
suppliers of assets for rent, physical products, or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable two-sided platforms in terms of their tremendous early growth were Airbnb, Etsy, and Uber. They offered short-term property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
tones while she delivered a PowerPoint presentation. The institute, she explained, would partner with Delgado Community College in New Orleans, which will expand its existing culinary studies program. The institute also will offer View Details
- Profile
Tiffany Pham
“Our short-term goals are: international, mobile, and video. With millions of users now accessing us from over 208 countries, we have introduced features enabling the translation of our content into any language. With over 70% of our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
short-term spike. What makes for good online learning? Patrick Mullane: First, you need to start with a pedagogy. What’s your way of teaching? It’s your teaching soul and you need to stay true to that, whether in a classroom or online. At... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
company takes in the face of a short-term decline in revenues,” Sucher notes. Business owners who take a different tack—such as Malden Mills CEO Aaron Feuerstein, who chose to continue paying his employees while the company rebuilt after... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is created when design decisions that are expedient in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks whether the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
say, a cloud computing company. "I think the [venture philanthropy] model really does work," he said. "It's long term and makes it hard to see short-term results. But we can show mounting evidence that when you put in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
ebb any time soon, a company that is seen as supporting Trump is likely to face difficulties recruiting young highly-skilled workers. Any CEO facing that problem is likely to ask his or herself if the short-term benefits that might be... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
short-term financial success will substantially outpace that of companies employing more traditional techniques, says Campbell, there are several other long-term benefits that show the advantages of their alternative approach. First, in a... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
organizations of all sorts are now facing. Any successful organization older than ten years and with more than thirty employees tends to have many people attending to the managerial chores and doing so at least adequately. It has to do so unless it has no View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
importantly, to learn. It was also hard to maintain consistency of pay across the larger site. Managers also grappled with the question of sustaining pay-for-performance over time. There were clear short-term benefits but also clear... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Argentina, multiple business leaders explained how they were obliged to adopt a short-term decision horizon in response to policy fluctuations, macroeconomic instability and high inflation rates. “Volatility,” one business leader noted,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
foreign investment, and community stability,” explains Raji, who was born in Nigeria. “My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
support productive change in China, can also function as constructive bridges. Seeing China as a short-term cost minimization fix is, in this sense, a lost opportunity. Q: It seems that China had hoped to use the Olympic Games as kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
their three college-aged children. “Everything was going along just great,” Sontag recalls. “Then came the evening of June 24, 1994, and our entire earth came apart.” That night, Susan had a stroke that left her with short-term memory... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
emergency short-term placement for troubled teens in McHenry County. Before we were licensed, the only options the county had for teens who could not go home were sending them to jail or a hospital. Over seven years, we took in more than... View Details