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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers’ annual sales, so it is a critical time to get retail execution right. Dynamic pricing strategies must be carefully executed to maximize margins while driving volume. Inventory turns must be carefully monitored so that physical... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
regulations should focus on. Repressing too much would be a problem. Obviously, Brazilian bankers at the turn of the 20th century were relatively conservative. They had mortgages on their balance sheets, but monitored them closely. At the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
chosen to designate an individual as a business leader (i.e., CEO), regardless of specific title, if he or she was regarded as the primary and, in some cases, sole leader in setting the company's direction, allocating resources, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
something for me." [Staples' head Thomas G.] Stemberg agreed to back him in exploring new businesses. Each ultimately invested $250,000 in a partnership to fund research on dry cleaning, an industry Stemberg had monitored for several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
self-regulatory program on children's advertising. The existing program was a voluntary cross-industry program that monitored advertisements directed to children. However, the program did not stipulate which products companies could or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Thus NGO involvement is essential to monitor and provide assurance that the poor are benefiting from the public-private partnership. NGOs, in spite of their own legitimacy problems, have become the conscience of the world, and they will... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense, these are good times for... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
golfer). Strategy came later, with the encouragement of HBS professor Chris Christensen; Porter went on to earn a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard and later cofound the Monitor Group consulting firm in 1983. In Porter’s view,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg is staring blankly at his computer screen. He adjusts his two monitors and fiddles with the speakers as he awaits the start of his next League of Legends battle. As he does many days, Bjerg will sit here playing the popular video... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
performance, in conjunction with the accountability framework in each state. In order to operate in this new accountability environment, our districts are designing and implementing internal accountability systems that allow them to View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Fifty-three-year-old Vescovo, his long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail, meticulously monitored the operation of the submersible, which he had christened the Limiting Factor. He watched the depth gauge creep up: 7,192 meters, the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
set in May 2016, discusses sales strategy and managing sales and service at Oversight Systems, an Atlanta, Georgia–based software firm that developed analytics for organizations to monitor their data for errors, fraud, and operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
institutions,” says Moss. Ultimately when the scrum was over, the list was created, along with a new regulatory agency to monitor them. Rather than flocking to be on the list, firms have sought to get as far away from it as possible, as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
actions the activist investors took to get the attention of management, the board, and other investors. The businesses, secure transportation, and home security monitoring are described from both a business strategy and a financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
deliberation. The Bank should also encourage debate on the project or policy reform in national legislatures prior to board discussion; The Implementation, Supervision, and Completion stage should use participatory monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets Harvard Business School Note 503-060 Describes in detail customer management strategies in business markets, including selection decisions, design and management of customer relationship strategies, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
and health care. For example, all aspects of travel (e.g. airports, flights, hotels, car hire, rebooking, monitoring payments, etc.) can be integrated into a single stream of activity that not only centers on individual support, but that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and remain within the guidelines of the WDC charter, the UN secretary-general would name a review group to monitor each venture. The WDC itself, however, would remain a small organization managed by people from many countries—and not... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge