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- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
immediate benefits that made it easy to justify future investments into using social channels to power the company's strategy. It also stands in marked contrast to the firms pursuing the first approach, which sought to engage with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
bibles of business success, the silver bullets of top performance, the secrets to long-term accomplishment and growth. And you’ve heard all about the importance of information technology, total quality management, and recruiting that... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its foreign direct investment (FDI) policies that could affect Tavistock's goals for its long-term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union invested to be managed for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
was attracted to this effort because I thought I saw two potential sources of long-term value. First, on emerging markets, there’s a lot we don’t know. These videos dramatically supplement the quality of information we have. Second,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
about leaders when leaders do four things: (i) Explicitly acknowledge the tension among multiple aims. Sometimes values bump up against one another—consider the cases in which leaders need to manage tradeoffs between maximizing profits and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
1932. A typical property bought in 1920 would have retained only 56% of its initial value in nominal terms two decades later. An investment in the stock market index (including dividends) would have outperformed an View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Variety, “(t)he Fund will contribute on a sustained, long-term basis to organizations on the front lines of the fight for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.” JULY 23 John Foley (MBA 2001), cofounder and CEO of fitness... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
especially given the substantial investment the students are making in terms of their own time and money. For all three stages, we are deeply grateful to HBS alumni who generously support our financial aid programs as they pay it forward... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
for investment banking internships, so Amyn was a great resource for us during that time. Sonia Sahney: When I went to my summer internship at Goldman after our first year I had already seen how they did modeling because Amyn had shown me... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We find evidence of two alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace