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- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
distribution: (1) assistance selecting funds that are harder to find or harder to evaluate, (2) access to funds with lower costs excluding distribution costs, (3) access to higher performing funds, (4) superior asset allocation, and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
the description? So are CEOs who are new to the role. Just when an executive feels he has reached the pinnacle of his career, capturing the coveted goal for which he has so long been striving, he begins to realize that the CEO's job is... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
venture capital company Venrock Associates and its founding family, the Rockefellers, compiled by founding partner Peter O. Crisp (HBS MBA '60). It includes information on Venrock's investments, investment performance and analysis, and... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
disappointed in the performance of the company. You think the technology is solid but the management team, and particularly the CEO, isn't very strong. The board has begun to take a more active role, the founder-CEO has been made the... View Details
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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
you’re not able to invest there.” Moonfare’s story offers insights for any company seeking new growth opportunities as its target market matures. While PE returns have outpaced stock market gains in the past, PE fundraising slowed last year as some View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
assets—a model that might well hold promise for other parts of rural and postindustrial America that are struggling to reinvent themselves. “I’m here to create jobs and economic opportunity,” Marietta says. “Not just talk about it, but... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
and, second, that simply assigning a group of people to work together makes them a team. We point out that assigning a team to carry out a job may not always be the best way. Sometimes it's more effective to let a gifted individual do it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
than it has in the past. Around the globe, people are wrestling with growing inequality, increasing divisiveness, and the rising threat of systemic challenges such as climate change. They are living with the terrifying insecurity that their View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
for the decade after World War II because wartime destruction led to excess demand, which limited competition as firms rushed to expand capacity. Given the enormous job of rebuilding Europe and much of Asia, it was not until the late... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
Hamel posited that we were on the verge of a "post-managerial’ society” in which “the work of managing will be less and less performed by ‘managers.’” He envisioned a future of management in which broad-based participation in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
also happened to be an Indian who had just transferred to this job after spending many years working at the Taj hotels, which are owned by the Tata Group. I asked him if he knew Ratan Tata, the head of the company, who is a graduate of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
logistics and profitability while making life much better for workers. Mercadona offers the lowest prices in Spain, and its operational performance exceeds that of comparable Spanish and foreign chains. In 2008, Mercadona's sales per... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
internal competition — trying to look better than other people. All of these forces are extrinsic motivators. They may get people to perform in the short run, but they lead people to feel that they're not doing their work because of their... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
Yaguchi, Cathy Xu WHAT PROJECTS WERE YOU WORKING ON THIS SUMMER? Paige Tsai (MBA 2020): Flatiron did a great job sourcing projects that were very aligned with our goals and research interests. A classmate and I partnered with Young... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
understand all the communications protocols and the way everything fit together. There was a time when that became less important in the whole server era, but now it's happening with the Web. In order to get performance out of the Web,... View Details
- 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