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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
"Over longer horizons, reduced inequality and sustained growth may thus be two sides of the same coin." If we were to graph economic growth vs. the Gini Coefficient,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- Profile
Adam Kanner
entertainment industry and its rapid growth is validation of the company’s role in re-shaping the industry.” Kanner’s stint in the NBA taught him how important it was to find answers to that double-edged problem. Unlike the few... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
all four drives for all of the stakeholders involved. In contrast, China primarily finances its rapid industrialization by attracting large amounts of foreign investment capital. Domestic consumption is constrained only among the poorer working masses, while there is... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’ and instincts.” CURRENT... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
co-authors, Werner Erhard and Steve Zaffron, and I distinguish integrity from morality and ethics in the following way. Integrity in our model is honoring your word. As such, integrity is a purely positive phenomenon. It has nothing to do with good View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged buyouts, which emphasized... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
challenges of a platform landscape that includes significantly varying installed device base sizes, growth rates, application distribution models, and hardware device profiles. Focusing on Apple's market leading iOS platform and "App... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
it’s not right.” The company’s approach to growth is no different. “One of the benefits of a family business is that you’re able to plan for the long term,” Kearsey says of the brewery founded in 1777 by Dorset farmer Charles Hall. “It’s... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
develop scalable strategies that drive growth and deliver a competitive advantage. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn .... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
advertising and profit generated through those observations, they could get a sense it by also matching the number of restaurant clicks to sales data for the subset of businesses being given the free advertising. The calculation suggested... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
the game—and some minds—when it comes to fossil fuels and the future. "We can create an industry and put some new options on the table," he says. "My hope is that we can build some extremely profitable carbon-management EOR projects and... View Details