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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
Business School Case 508-028 Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
The CEO of the Corporate Solutions Group at Jones Lang LaSalle Americas (JLL) is executing an organizational redesign to respond to its strategy goal of becoming more customer-centric. This case examines the dramatic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
Every year, just as Hercules cleansed the Augean Stables, some NFL teams undergo a thorough reorganization of their coaching staffs. This annual exercise in bloodletting, known as Black Monday, takes place on the first Monday after the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
especially as the government did not want a rate hike that could potentially hinder economic growth and increase its already large fiscal debt burden. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708017 Restructuring at Delphi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609041-PDF-ENG Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer Harvard Business School Case 410-007 Peter Roberts, CEO of Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL) Americas division, has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
Utku Ünver explain in a paper, factors such as contracts, control of stadiums, and corporate sponsorship effectively tied the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) into a system of early matching of teams.... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
connectedness of digital communication, the dynamic movement of capital, and the changing nature of political boundaries are propelling capitalism into a new form that can be characterized as "virtual capitalism." And global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
major effort to reorganize the Business Policy course around the concept of corporate strategy, which offered an analytical framework for examining decision-making within organizations. The redesigned course... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
enough. Fisher had an opportunity; his successor had a crisis. What can leaders do before the depth and scope of their companies' crises come into focus? How can they initiate major transformations proactively? As researchers and managers who have been involved in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
that had synergies with the company's businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six new divisions within the company while simultaneously... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and extended this tax relief only to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Service Excellence to the GCC Tanfeeth, a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm in the United Arab Emirates, was founded in July 2011 as a fully owned subsidiary of Emirates NBD, the largest bank in the Gulf Corporation Council. When... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54598 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
generation moving up the corporate ranks. Stimulate Creativity by Fueling Passion Authors:Teresa Amabile and Colin M. Fisher Publication:In The Blackwell Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior. 2nd ed. London: Wiley-Blackwell,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace