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- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
directions to meet future needs. The Boeing board’s repeated CEO failures resulted from this approach of choosing people who applied the same leadership formula. Business allow the current CEO to dominate the hiring process. Many boards... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
efficiency and materials and resources. LEED rating recipients are awarded certification levels of Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum, depending on the number of total points. The researchers focused on LEED because of its relative View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the United States has changed over the past few decades following several M&A waves. Concern has been raised that the industry has become highly concentrated, dominated by a handful of large holding companies. In the paper "How... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
did. We use the want/should theoretical framework to explain the bounded ethicality that arises from these temporal inconsistencies, positing that the "should" self dominates during the prediction and evaluation phases but that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
catalog and online channels. We show that the emergence and strength of cannibalizing and complementary effects vary over time, across type of channel, and by type of customer and provides insight into when and where managers can expect these effects to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
organization among enterprises specializing in overseas ventures, they did not become the dominant form of large enterprises within British economy itself. Business groups organized under the holding company such as Calico Printers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart's leadership had targeted the rapidly growing e-commerce arena as a strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
in Oral Care Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-120 In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive (Colgate) was the global leader in oral care, with a dominant market share lead in toothpaste and a growing presence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets addresses contexts that are different from developed markets. These regions had long eras of foreign domination and extensive state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
there isn't one best way to do anything. None has chosen a highly unusual competitive strategy. For example, lots of companies try to compete on the basis of low cost, or high reliability, or fast response. All have risen to industry View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
held up because of its interpretation as a tax. If you think about the environment, you think about provisions that are associated with oil and gas, drilling, natural resource extraction. If you think about the M&A market, it's View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
consumer in the world, exceeding the wine-producing European countries such as France and Italy, which had long dominated world markets. The paper identifies the late 1960s and 1970s as the major turning point by analyzing the role of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
dominates other state-of-the-art methods for identifying investment benchmarks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48220 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
small, Apple was increasingly dependent on the iPhone to drive its growth. Could Cook continue Apple's dominance in the smartphone market in the face of growing competition? Could he revitalize the iPad business, become a leader in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
School Case 615-017 Qihoo Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software produc, and quickly dominated the market in China after its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
broad-based government guarantees to one with market discipline exerted by sophisticated and at-risk investors in bank debt. The federal government should not be encouraging mergers among large institutions in the financial sector, which is now View Details