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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
The Estate Tax Debate Per dollar of revenue, no tax policy generates more sound and fury than the taxation of estates. To supporters, the tax is a break on the concentration of wealth and power and an easy way to fund redistribution. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Robert S. Huckman: Breaking down barriers to care—for good The urgency of the pandemic has brought on a pervasive easing of formal and informal regulation in health care. Payment for telemedicine has expanded and, accordingly, physicians... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Switzerland of Latin America.” Inspired by populist revolts against the status quo observable worldwide, Novick hoped he could ride popular momentum to break the political monopoly of the traditional parties and return the country to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts. The decision would have... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
offers weekly Zoom meetings with guest speakers, game-based messaging, positive social norming exercises, and the promotion of “protective factors” such as staying connected to others, being physically active, and taking breaks from... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
and deploy the product? Or an entirely new team dedicated solely to renewals? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-036 Breaking Bad (the Rules): Argentina Defaults,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
several months into his turnaround of a global technology company's Russia subsidiary, a young and upcoming French executive reflected on how to institutionalize the subsidiary's transformation by further driving cultural change and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
forthcoming New York: Dey Street Books Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life By: Gino, F. Abstract—The world’s best chef. An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing. A magician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
early to cope with time zone challenges or living in airports sometimes being 50 percent of a manager’s time. “It comes as no surprise that so many managers are overwhelmed and burned out these days.” Many companies are working overtime to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
decision, political and social unrest breaks out in Kenya following a highly contested presidential election. Acumen Fund must now also consider the political risks of investing. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
the power they wield. The Justice Department announced last week it’s launching a multiyear review, but didn’t name potential targets. For Facebook, the most often cited solution would be to break up the company by unwinding the Instagram... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
customers who told him that their key area of pain was the difficulty of integrating the "islands of automation" throughout their global companies. Gerstner, himself a former IBM customer, immediately recognized the opportunity. He reversed the previous CEO's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
departments, simplification of strategic-planning and capital budgeting processes, and massive overhauls of corporate structures and processes—all in an effort both to shift initiative to those deep in the organization who possess valued expertise and to View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
"Ukraine's national identity was too contested and fragmented regionally for the government to make a decisive break from the CIS and toward Europe, as did the Baltics," writes Abdelal. "At the same time, Ukraine's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Abstract—We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and misconduct using the setting of environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was... View Details