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- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
investing, mostly through term debt. Debt capacity expansion led to firm growth, with profits increasing by 35 percent annually. Growth is even larger for firms further away from debt limits. Delinquency or debt restructuring rates didn’t View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
almost half of its stock was acquired by the SairGroup, a unit of Swissair; as of last April, their stake in the airline climbed to 85 percent. The move to the private sector has Sabena flying high. Its number of passengers has doubled... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
between themselves and problematic companies, until they are ready to once again climb the corporate ladder with a cleaner record. Groysberg, Lin, Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams elaborated on “bouncing back” strategies in their September... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
shortened to thirty-five hours. What has happened? Take France, for example. French productivity is up; some would claim it is now higher than the U.S., just as is productivity in The Netherlands, Belgium, and the former West Germany. For example, Volkswagen's market... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
to entrepreneurship, she said. In 1972 women owned 4 percent of all American businesses; by 1991, that figure had climbed to 38 percent. This is not a trivial accomplishment; these women-owned enterprises were responsible for $4 trillion... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
executives made early career choices that placed them at the leading edge of the work they liked. They were more enthusiastic about the work itself and less concerned with how quickly—or slowly—they were climbing the corporate ladder. In... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
for Refugees. Some forecasters expect the number of forcibly displaced migrants to climb to 1 billion as climate change makes more parts of the world uninhabitable. “They will affect you. They will affect me. They may be you and me, as... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
wrestling with profound feelings of loss as they climbed the ranks. A scope for sanity Despite evidence of universal misery, none of the companies—largely professional services firms—that Ely has observed in her career have shifted the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
started to rise, climbing 49 percent in the next decade to nearly 2,500 stores nationwide. The resurgence has lessons for other industries. “Indie bookstores have defied the odds,” Raffaelli says. “What happened in this sector has... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
that they waited too long to develop good habits for honing their skills or for thinking deeply about what they wanted. Does any of this sound like you? Are you making the most of your capabilities? Do you feel as if you're on someone else's path? If so, is it too late... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000 items, with that number climbing... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health care... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
watchmakers to put the most pristine parts, screws, and oil in the perfect locations. “When you think about capturing value from innovations, pricing is quite possibly the most important decision that you’ll ever make” Prices for A. Lange & Söhne products start... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
is a perfect example of "how a British prime minister reaches the top of the greasy pole" by climbing the political system and serving as postmaster general, minister for health, and chancellor for the exchequer before becoming PM. He was... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
capitalists surveyed—who collectively manage $340 billion in assets—said they expected their funds to prosper. However, two-thirds acknowledged that investing had slowed. During the first half of 2020, they invested at 71 percent of pre-pandemic levels, a rate that... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
startups that found further success in the market—are rare, and mainly involve companies purchased for their intellectual property. Lessons for universities The study’s findings are significant as university research expenditures climb to... View Details