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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
and that they needed to commit themselves to the dual goal of producing benefits for society and their firms' bottom lines-to creating "shared value." But the specific actions they could take to bring about this change were less clear. This ebook View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and available capacity. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
behavior that have not been considered in previous research. First, customers who monitor product prices after purchase may initiate opportunistic returns because of price drops. Second, customers who anticipate a future return may... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard and provided an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
firms-triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than 900 BCG teams in 30 countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
revenue alone. This public-private partnership helped the city finance and deliver water to millions of people when it did not have the cash or the capability to do it with city resources alone. Second, the public can help the private investors with View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
as a sales issue.” Planning and hiring To reap any of these benefits companies must develop links between the C-suite and the customer-facing side of the business. In his article, Cespedes offers two examples of how this can be done:... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
prevailing public health system, while operating under the same revenue structure (per capita payments from the Ministry of Health). A highly visible landmark initiative of the Medical School of the Catholic University, success would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
of a larger social purpose connected with protecting and cultivating the nation. It gives citizens a reason to sacrifice in pursuit of a higher national goal. And it expands the "time horizons" for a country's leaders and offers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
funding for their startups when responding to prevention-focused questions with promotion-focused answers. As we offer evidence regarding tactics that can be employed to diminish the gender disadvantage in funding outcomes, this study has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
behavioral ethics. I explore why some decisions are much more easily resolved in the classroom than in practice and offer three ways to more effectively prepare students: integrating ethical decision-making with core-discipline teaching,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
and economic sustainability. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the roles of multiplier firms and megaprojects in leading change for sustainability around the world, particularly in the context of the built environment. Multiplier firms are organizations that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
functional administrators. Beginning in 1912, Harvard offered a required second-year course in "business policy," which was designed to integrate the knowledge gained in functional areas like accounting, operations, and finance,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. Pay for performance sensitivity for non-founder CEOs in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home delivery or pharmacy pick-up a requirement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace