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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
Internet system to handle billing and related services. Also in November, GM signed an agreement with EDS to manage its B2B and business-to-employee projects.92 The revenue growth and savings that GM executives predict have until now... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
bankruptcy or bad debts 1985 USDA approves the sale of the first genetically altered organism 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act prohibits employers with more than three employees from discriminating against anyone (except... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and independent hotels. Spun out... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
tracking outcomes with employers) and then connecting students with the best jobs. Employers were enduring long project wait times – six months to a year after the sale to install – because they couldn’t find enough skilled trades labor.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
years, the buyout team sells its stakes in these firms. "This exit can be accomplished through a sale to a strategic buyer, such as a corporation, or to another private equity group. But in many of the most successful investments,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
life insurance practices led to an investigation in New York State that threatened to curtail growth in the industry. Charles Evans Hughes guided the four-month-long Armstrong Investigation, which made startling revelations and offered a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal norms, which restricted View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
him to start a back-office services firm for their insurance company clients, which grew into ReSource Pro. By year-end 2007, ReSource Pro employed 250 people, of whom only four were U.S. based. With aggressive growth plans, Bruno began... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
inequality due to forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hypothesis. On one hand, larger compensation differentials are accepted as inequality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Strategy Harvard Business School Case 705-477 The Turkish home appliances firm Arcelik is revisiting its growth strategy. Options for growth include continuing to promote currently owned brands in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Prevention-focused and older individuals—who engage in processing that shifts reference points to less extreme instances—show a decreased sensitivity to variance. We discuss the marketing implications of preferences for variance. Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high growth. Rajesh Yabaji, Chanakya Hridaya, and B. Ramasubramaniam (Subbu) came together to create BlackBuck, with an aim to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
812-070 The growth of companies that facilitate the sales of unregistered stock, such as that granted to employees of successful but long-private companies, has raised a number of questions among regulators,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures from OPOWER's product roadmap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
deep culture of direct sales to corporate customers, the company was slow to take advantage of a rapidly emerging consumer market—at least until founder Michael Dell returned to shake things up. "Our past is littered with firms that... View Details