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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Greenwich, Connecticut, that is considering offering a wholly new line of product to retail investors, namely the ability to invest in the price phenomenon known as momentum. There is a large body of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
being described is the savings bond program." Unfortunately, recent changes to the program have made it a less attractive, less accessible product for LMI families. In January 2003, for example, the Department of the Treasury... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if managers learn where the legal... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like an internal venture capital... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208041 Teradyne: The Aurora Project Harvard Business School Case 397-114 Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
can rack up U.S. box office receipts of just over $380 million (not including consumer product tie-ins), and unexpected hits like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ grossed $370 million in 2004, earning a respectable third-place... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations are able to exploit complimentarities with their existing... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
after, but there is still plenty of clean business they can." Their experience is supported by companies including GE, Statoil, and Fluor that have drawn a bright line internally against paying to play in foreign countries and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
further developing their product lines to address the emerging need." "All of which must have been faintly depressing if you were the originator of the idea, now seeing your idea being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business history shows that if the desire for a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
a productive way for a company to respond? Spar: To be targeted is to be chosen by an NGO (or group of NGOs) for specific attack. When this occurs, NGOs use a range of tactics, from pickets to boycotts to "cut up your credit... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
management team wants to target a younger demographic and has revamped its fall product line to offer more fashionable styles to appeal to younger women. But, repositioning the brand has proven to be harder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
communities. In this new system, there is broad agreement across party lines that we must maintain a commitment to support affordable housing for working families, including funds for low-income rental initiatives. We need a common... View Details
- 13 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India
targets, aiming to reach 500 GW of renewable energy production by 2030. However, even with those impressive goals, coal still supplies about 70% of the country’s energy needs.4 The tension is clear: India needs to decarbonize for the sake... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
blind people through a network of associated agencies, NIB had once enjoyed a relative monopoly of the federal procurement market for its SKILCRAFT® brand of office supplies and some two thousand other products and services. But that... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons