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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
Exchange Commission-approved NYSE and Nasdaq governance listing standards. The risk now is that boards will become overly focused on regulatory compliance and not perform their broader and more managerial responsibilities adequately. Can companies—especially those that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
how well he can create shared value in that context. A lot of negotiations are also about leverage, and for the most part, he’s gotten himself in a very favorable position where he usually has the negotiating leverage. He may not have the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a process that can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
management. Instead, Perlman mapped backward from his VC target, reasoning that WebTV's appeal and value to the VCs would be greatly enhanced by partnership with a prominent consumer electronics firm. Perlman started by pitching his... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in gaming platforms; analyze... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce strategic resource is. When it View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
with firm value and operating performance persisted. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589731 Does Management Really Work? Authors: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
Research Agenda Author:Roberto Verganti Periodical:Journal of Product Innovation Management (forthcoming) Abstract Recent studies on design management have helped us to better comprehend how companies can apply design to get closer to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
By: Hałaburda, Hanna, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—The value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them; the fewer fax machines in use, the less important it is to have one. These network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Angel Investor with an Agenda Authors:Regina E. Herzlinger and Beatriz Muñoz-Seca Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
environmental sustainability could provide an opportunity to create value for the firm by delivering both commercial and reputational benefits. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318399 U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
person to be the steward or organizer of the strategy map. This person ensures that data are continually fed into the map and Balanced Scorecard to keep them refreshed, organizes the monthly report distribution—usually electronically—and sets the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
have their own agendas and a fixed amount of political capital to allocate to them. If you recognize that your firm or your industry is not one that matters much to the government, then you should not count on much support. WTO rulings... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of external funders who require MNC participation to ensure value maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
founded in 1956 by Ichiro Yawata, Shiggi's father. The company reported revenues of 14 billion yen ($112 million) and had 5,200 employees when Shiggi Yawata was appointed CEO in 1992. A dynamic, outspoken leader, Yawata quickly set an ambitious global View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase ambiguities in state-firm relations and how states are interested actors in creating opportunities for firms to navigate the federal legislation. We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
So on the one hand, the political policy is to extend credit; on the other, the government-owned enterprises (Fannie and Freddie Mac) are trying to narrow the credit box because they so afraid of incurring a loss. Q: Tax reform is high on the public View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
addresses this shortfall as part of a larger research agenda investigating how companies manage to succeed in this particular arena. Verganti coauthored the article with Claudio Dell'Era, his colleague at Italy's Politecnico di Milano.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
work on observable substitutability, we show that multi-division choice functions with flexible allotments enable stable and strategy-proof matching; these results illustrate the value of clearly mapping when stable and strategy-proof... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel