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- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
value. [Please see [graphic.] A unique aspect of profit wheel analysis is that it interlocks with two other wheels that analyze cash flow and return on equity. Many companies are paying attention to one of these wheels, or maybe two, but... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
photography, history, and climate change. I ended up focusing a lot on financial analysis for the team and putting together various communications documents for them to help demonstrate their value across the park service. We presented to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
variety of sources. It is organized into three sections: (1) "The Big Picture" explores macroeconomic indicators, as well as those associated with the opportunities and constraints of the business environment; (2) "Regional Variation" makes a strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
subsidy: 100%, 80%, 50%, and a hybrid 50% subsidy that could become a 100% subsidy by attaining attendance targets. Setting and Subjects: 23,023 employees of two U.S. companies. Measures: The primary outcome was the percentage of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
Apparel (B) The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations for failure focus on Quincy's ambitious value proposition and resulting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Inkpen Abstract—The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-008.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Shaw Group Inc.: Entrepreneurial Innovation Lynda M. Applegate and Edward WatsonHarvard Business School Case 810-135 The case describes the founding and evolution of the Shaw Group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
most also influence their decisions. Q: Why did you decide to pursue an analysis of these decisions through cases? A: As I began on the path to explore these financial decisions, it became clear that conventional methods were... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
we wanted to make the program sustainable, with the hope in the future that the program itself would not be needed, as an organization’s culture and fabric would be able to support this neuro-diversity from recruitment to on-boarding, development, and job progression.”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
issues. “There are also many challenges that come with the executive director territory. I spend a lot of my time and energy working to form partnerships with community organizations and potential funders and sponsors. Many of them approach our initial conversations... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in real GDP, Werker's View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, 3rd Edition is a highly accessible and authoritative book that explains how to perform the valuation work and... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
choose one. There have been so many. I can remember one where Joe Perella was on the phone with the Chairman of International Paper Company. And I'd done the analysis and it started off with me not being available, the first call that Joe... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
setting is a production site in Hungary that is starting up the production of a personal beverage maker. Should the team implement a conveyor-paced line in preference to a manual pull system? An analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
who may have private relationships with intelligence officials.” The President’s executive order also set in motion the creation of specific information sharing and analysis organizations, which would allow... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
research in a real-world setting bears this out, with positive emotion tied to higher creativity and negative feelings linked to lower motivation and creativity. (Data for her study are based on diary evidence that a subject actually did... View Details