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  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

  Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

  Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

  Working PapersNone available this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAnalyzing Work Groups Harvard Business School Note 407-032 Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407032 Ayala Corp Harvard Business School Case 207-041... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC, is a tightening... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 06 Mar 2020
  • Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire by Thomas J. DeLong. Copyright 2020 Thomas J. DeLong. All rights reserved. About the Author Martha Lagace is a Boston-based writer for Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

adoption, participants are no better than others. Little evidence suggests that adopting such programs leads participants to improve faster, says Toffel. Government-initiated programs, however, show more mixed results. Toffel met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

and operations. Martha Lagace: What particular issues around execution need to be better addressed in business? Robert Kaplan: There are two key issues. First is leadership. Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

Guide to Doing the Right Thing (HBS Press, 2002), he describes what quiet leaders do and how they make their workplace, and their world, a better place. Badaracco recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge Senior Editor Martha View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

information flow, and price evolution, in security markets." Cohen explained more in an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What made you think that there might be an interesting link between educational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

Structure and Performance of Corporate Headquarters." Among their findings: Contrary to popular belief, European HQs were smaller than American HQs. And the much-touted "lean and mean" ideal does not necessarily lead to better financial performance.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

to support these sets of well-meaning folks who are trying to do the right thing." Tufano was invited to describe his work for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: How did you get interested in studying different vehicles for savings?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace.Lagace: In your paper you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

health clinics, schools, or technical advisors." Werker explained more about the study and its implications for global society in an e-mail Q&A. Martha Lagace: Why did you and Ashwin Kaja decide to look closer at the World Bank?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

decentered. Managers will find food for thought to reconceptualize their corporate home and prepare strategically for the future. Martha Lagace: What is decentering, and why is it an important phenomenon? Mihir Desai: We've become... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

first stabilized." Iyer explained more in an interview. Martha Lagace: What sparked your interest in Nepal? Lakshmi Iyer: I was in Nepal before the conflict started. It is a beautiful country and it's a real pity they have descended... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

  PublicationsThe Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System Authors include:David S. Scharfstein Publication:Princeton University Press, N.J.: 2010 Abstract In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing the broadest spectrum of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

  PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types of hybrid organizations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

  PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial expertise that few of today's primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

  PublicationsBlock-by-Blockbuster Innovation Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 5 (May 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/05/column-block-by-blockbuster-innovation/ar/1/ Between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace