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- Case
When Should CEOs Speak Out Publicly? The 2021 Georgia Voting Law
By: William W. George, Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case describes the March 2021 passage of a voting and elections law in the U.S. state of Georgia and reactions by corporations and corporate leaders to the law. Included are a brief history of voting rights in the United States and Georgia and an overview of the... View Details
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
module boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. In this chapter I extend the functional mapping techniques developed in the last chapter to locate technical and strategic bottlenecks, modules, and property... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors must decide whether EforAll is ready to open its first out-of-state office. Students are asked to consider a variety of factors—including funding, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
finance from its beginnings in the natural resources industry in the 1970s, to the U.S. power industry in the 1980s, to a much wider range of industry applications and geographic locations in the 1990s and 2000s, and most recently to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
expansion, and intrinsic business characteristics. The Indian models are all focused factories, but one is a hub and spoke model, with a hospital hub and ambulatory spokes, while the other offers only ambulatory services and is located on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
huge number of store closings but not a concomitant number of store brands dying. The concept the brand represents may be dead to the consumer but the stores are still there generating cash flow. In retail location is still critically... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
U.S. "productivity miracle" is due to a natural advantage of being located in the U.S., then we would not expect to see any evidence of it for U.S. establishments located abroad. This paper shows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
(i) geographically dispersed firms are less employee friendly; (ii) dismissals of divisional employees are less common in divisions located closer to corporate headquarters; and (iii) firms appear to adopt a "pecking-order" and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
coverage—and improve the quality of care. Insurers could also offer plans that would be politically unfeasible for the public option. For example, private insurers can offer policies that transport members from high-cost locations for... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
assuming that all customers are shoppers leads to overestimating their overall price sensitivity. Big lessons from a simple product In the context of retail gas, which many consumers view as a standardized product, a station’s location... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
perspective" that emphasizes cumulative investments over relatively long periods of time. Recognizing that instead of evaluating investments in R&D or new factories on a purely short-term financial basis, that the math of View Details
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
"We are opening up communication. This Center will be the beginning of something that will grow and become a beacon of light. "Knowledge is the factor that produces change and freedom." The opening of the Center, located on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
helpful in securing the backing of a prominent investment bank. Furthermore, the less centrally located the firm, the more beneficial was its downstream capital with respect to the size of the IPO. According to Higgins, startups in every... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Relatedly, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Finally, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, particularly among managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
elite-oriented cultural and educational institutions and social welfare-oriented organizations. We find that corporate density enhances the growth of both types of nonprofits, as does location in the Northeast U.S. and being a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
organizations like Factual (founded by a former Google employee) have set as their goal that of providing access to all of the world's facts. Presumably this means data such as the location of every factory in the world, data that has not... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
paper concludes that savings contributes to growth in locations where entrepreneurs and companies lack access to necessary technological advances, in countries far away from the "technological frontier." To overcome this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
From another viewpoint, sustainable competitive advantage is diminishing because, increasingly, firms can locate plants anywhere, and call on human, financial, and other resources without regard for locale. How is organizational design... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira Abstract— Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
a lot of attention, but we're not seeing mobile as a big employer yet," Deighton says. "We think mobile will be a very big part of the [employment] growth in the years ahead with the transmission of medical data, location data,... View Details