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07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

the form of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Initially, Nate ran the business and after a few years changed roles with Julia to stay at home with their young children for three years. The two were in charge as co-CEOs before Julia... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

would investors pay for them?—and this means regulation and legislation relying on ratings becomes much harder to implement. The third type of model, which I have seen proposed recently, is some form of fixed payments (called "bond... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53493 November–December 2017 Harvard Business Review Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy By: Porter, Michael E., and James E. Heppelmann Abstract—While the physical... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

advantage, leading companies are now using an advanced form of outsourcing, called global collaboration, to drive new revenue, quicken time-to-market, and increase innovation. Global collaboration impacts their top as well as bottom... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

experience? In their book, the authors have undertaken the formidable task of describing judgment and how good judgments are formed and carried out, based on observations of successful and unsuccessful leaders. They assert that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

February 2025
Case

Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A) (Abridged)

By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details

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05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: collusion may... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

"owners"; and (8) knowing that their current beliefs about the future of services are wrong, great service leaders build agile service organizations that learn, innovate, and adapt. The book explores the ideas and leadership... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

organizations as well as customer pressure from individual investors are critical in mitigating free-rider problems among asset managers and sustaining engagement practices. Finally, I explore the limits and anticompetitive concerns to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

Telephone Company, formed by a consortium of private equity firms, has made a public tender offer for Denmark's leading telecommunications company, TDC. TDC's board of directors approved the take-private transaction, and 88% of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of my current research initiatives,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

government, and not-for-profits. To war against COVID To aid the fight against COVID-19, here are seven key frameworks and approaches with roots in military strategy that are taught in leading Agile and strategy programs. They can help your View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

result would be a stronger country with a growing supply of well-paying jobs. In forming ARD, its founders were guided by an intuitive understanding of the dynamics of entrepreneurship. They realized that View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Examples include the computer and telecommunication ecosystem, the health care ecosystem, and the global financial ecosystem. In the last ten years, ecosystems have emerged as an important form of economic organization, replacing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

U.S. advertisers large and small operated some form of in-house advertising unit in the 1990s, a trend apparently on the increase. In this decade, Procter & Gamble, Google, and Condé Nast Media Group all introduced internal... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

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Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

First Look: May 22, 2007

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A) (Abridged)

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

First Look: June 30, 2015

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

First Look: August 14, 2007

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

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