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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
every Congressional district is the health industry. Private insurers should have a freer range of competitive options through legislation that enables them to sell across state lines in the individual and small-group markets. Further,... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
healthy workers, benefit their reputations, and engender greater consumer and employee loyalty. Healthy communities also have more money to spend on non health care products and services than unhealthy ones. Underappreciated benefits... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
Factory" (HBR May-June 1974), Wickham Skinner proposed that manufacturers whose product lines had proliferated create specialized units, each dedicated to a distinct task. To make this economically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
competition can impede the reputational mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
corporate profits attributable to foreign operations has escalated from 5 percent in the 1960s to 30 percent today. Second, multinational firms, once characterized as a web of autonomous subsidiaries serving local markets, are more likely to have globally-integrated... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
eyes on the host except on the website. There was a neighbor facilitator who dropped off the keys and picked them up." In any case, the researchers recommend putting profile pictures in a less prominent place, perhaps on a separate page from the picture of the View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing in real time. “It has basically... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
regard, Aiken feels that women often face a different challenge than men because they are too often "put into staff positions rather than line management jobs in order to 'protect their success,'" which, she adds,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Publications August 2013 Jossey-Bass Teaming to Innovate By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
negotiations and poses an immediate tactical challenge in the context of the overall process. The (B) case describes the strategies, tactics, and results of these negotiations, along with Welz's broader insights into a more productive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
to all personal care products sold online by the five firms implies that customers spent an additional $300 million annually as a result of pricing algorithms, out of a total of about $6 billion in e-commerce revenue for the category.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be scaled back to just one or two? Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation and, if so, how? Are We Ready for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
some very interesting things happening. For example, in electronics, manufacturers need to have Best Buy as a partner. If you are investing a billion dollars on the next Galaxy launch at Samsung, you don't want your R&D to just become a View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
whose job is growing accounts with a lot of potential and farmers whose job is to maintain strong and broad-based relationships. CRLs must walk a fine line between being close to the client, even considered part of their team, and not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
impact in the economy, and in line with previous findings by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo and David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Jae Song. Both shocks significantly reduced the demand for manufacturing workers in areas... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
“The idea of opening America’s borders to creative, entrepreneurial immigrants is attractive. H1B is not, in my view, the correct vehicle for this. I would rather that the country revamp its immigration program along the lines currently... View Details