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- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor concessions. Manufacturers pit dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711037-PDF-ENG Government Policy and Clean-Energy Finance Ramana Nanda, Sanjay Aggarwal, and Nilam GanenthiranHarvard Business School Note 811-026 What leads to market failures in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
consulted with government officials about national fiscal policy. As a statesman and as a business leader, Odutola worked tirelessly to improve the infrastructure of his country. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407027... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Companies like Verve Therapeutics announced the first human trials of a single shot cure for all heart attacks through a one-time change in a single gene. In most of these cases, business choices like market selection, financing strategy and View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041 August 2013 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy By: Nanda, Ramana, Ken Younge, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
objective was "to gain insight into hospital problems in order to serve them better," in a market where service would make the difference since price disparities were rapidly vanishing due to increasing competition. The candid... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
estimated that price tag at a shocking $504 billion for 2015. Having parked, Langford is now maneuvering a cardboard box full of spiral-bound white papers through a series of doors leading to a Carter Center conference room. The... View Details