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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
best ideas. The company is now considering the deployment of a prediction market to deepen user involvement and commitment in its innovation; however, it is not sure if it is an appropriate strategy for its community. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing orthodoxy had been determined in significant part by norms of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/does-america-really-need-manufacturing/ar/1 Choosing the United States Authors:Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract The U.S. is not winning its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
but they are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group's R&D investments or alternately interfere with its freedom to operate. The case frames important intellectual property issues around appropriability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
utilization in teams, revealing how and when teams appropriately draw on their members' expertise. Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance Author:Heidi K. Gardner Publication:Best... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
response to, varying market conditions. However, while the problems of balance-sheet liability and revenue recognition, and the related problems of income statement presentation, can be resolved by the application of DV/RV reasoning, this is not sufficient fully to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
investors, customers, and employees. The approach aims to help managers identify relevant harms, analyze their responsibility for harms, and determine an appropriate response. The approach also considers limits on how far managers ought... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
performance. To perform the modified Dupont Decomposition, students learn how to reformat and condense the balance sheet and income statement to separately measure profitability arising from operating activities and financing activities. Students also see how excess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
appropriate staffing, and store layout. Everyone in retailing knows this, but basics are boring, and it's easy to lose sight of them. The U.S. automotive industry offers a cautionary tale of the perils of not tending to the basics. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
investment advice for long-term investors. I have already argued that the recommendation that conservative investors should simply hold more cash might not be appropriate for long-term conservative investors, because reinvestment risk... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
financial firms face in considering appropriate capital levels. Purchase this note: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310005-PDF-ENG A Note on Cost Reduction in Financially Troubled Organizations Harvard Business School Note 809-161... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Easterbrook forfeited cash and stock worth $105 million. Shareholders sued the board for breach of its fiduciary duties, including its oversight duty, but the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the suit, saying the board acted View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
team launches the latest version of Zeal in fall 2014. While reflecting on their process to find product-market fit, Danner and his team wonder where to pivot next and seek an appropriate business model that considers their customer and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Dynamics By: Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum capital ratios is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne