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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
simply amazed at how frank and open the executives I worked with have been in discussing their experiences, and I do not know of another resource out there that can be used to teach students the actual practice of corporate restructuring.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
variety of valuation approaches, from techniques widely used in practice to methods less frequently seen in practice today but likely to be increasingly important in the future years. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
quality issue. Do we need a kind of corporate “Jidoka rule” that calls a “stop,” examines behavior, preserves “voice,” encourages respect, and leads to learning between elements of the organization with different interests and goals? What View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
One-on-One Meeting The one-on-one meeting between supervisor and staff is an invaluable tool for managing, but requires much attention to detail. Julia B. Austin explains best practices for getting the most... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
expertise, and spreading out risk. On the other hand, forming alliances also requires coordinating tasks and merging cultures, which can often be difficult and costly to achieve. Business theorists have long pursued this question in an effort to determine the View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
corporation as a separate legal “person.” Even in the United States, a director’s duty to shareholders is at best co-equal with, but not above, the duty to the potentially immortal corporate person. Shareholders own a tradable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
and adapt leadership and talent management best practices to law firm structures and challenges. Chapters cover all of the important aspects of strategic talent management and provide View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
find more violations initially because the factory would have less time to sweep things under the rug, Toffel cautions that “an unannounced audit might also create a more contentious environment where factory management might not be so receptive to hearing any View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
schools. What was the appeal of charter schools in this sensitive environment? What opportunities do they present both for improving public education and utilizing best practices in entrepreneurship?... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
policy would be in the best interest of the United States, and what levers (if any) the U.S. government could pull in order to insure that such a policy would be carried out. What would the three actors decide, and how would their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has gaping loopholes. Some of the arrangements behind the Indonesian projects seem not to have violated the law, but they didn't smell good in the light of public examination. In the long run,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
of the Class of 1997 (Jennifer Scott Fonstad, David Rosenblatt, and John Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. "We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
at it through different lenses.—F. Warren McFarlan Q: What is some of your basic advice for helping companies align their portfolios? A: Understand your portfolio by looking at it through different lenses; try to benchmark yourself against View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
written by Lal with HBS colleague David Bell, was published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics last June. Lal discusses his findings with Manda Salls. Salls: Frequent shopper programs have become part of the shopper's landscape. What View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
analytics, Polzer writes in Research in Organizational Behavior, could inform pressing questions such as: “Who are the best candidates to hire or promote? Are employees maintaining their sense of well-being? Are they collaborating... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
(Ostrom, 1990). Here we extend this claim to the production of man-made artifacts. The design commons induced teachers to volunteer time and effort to communicate their practical knowledge but created corresponding tensions over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
to give their dog to the shelter, we can help them skip the shelter and directly rehome their dog into a new loving family,” says Exley, noting that the program also helps families follow best practices... View Details