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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Inc., the world's largest design software company, decided to engage in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for the design and construction of its new Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Solutions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Corrections Corporation of America
This case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a publicly traded firm specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Buildings and Facilities; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Forecasting and Prediction; Risk Management; Valuation; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry
Riedl, Edward J. "Corrections Corporation of America." Harvard Business School Case 107-071, April 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
India at all, compared to the time that India spends agonizing over the Chinese threat. To the extent that they do think about India, my research in China suggests that they are focused on movies, software, and Buddhism, in a constructive... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
prices associated (or contemporaneous) with JGTRRA. Consistent Constructs in Individuals' Risk Taking in Decisions from Experience Authors:Eyal Ert and Eldad Yechiam Publication:Acta Psychologica (forthcoming) Abstract The current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and event-planning needs that... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
Genzyme Center (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Aldo Sesia. "Genzyme Center (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-009, September 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
only what is traded, proves integral to constructing legitimacy, thus suggesting a practice-based view of moral markets. The professionals, including a group of "gatekeepers," construct a narrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by using data collected from a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
get to the top, quality people keep you there." Other respondents helped develop a kind of construct for NSM, one encompassing a number of other management behaviors. For example, Gerald Nanninga couched his support in these terms:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
pronounce your company as outstanding. Another potential jinx. Look what happened to Digital Equipment, Kodak, and Wang Laboratories, once lauded by business academics. You build monuments to your success. Resist the urge to construct... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
the machine wins. The three researchers worked with an unnamed, 800-employee technology company to construct a new game that imitated a specific human: the company’s CEO. They designed a field experiment to assess the potential for AI to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market accounting, the performance guarantees in the power plant View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
Egyptians. There are still many problems that need to be solved, including whether enough high-quality schools can be built fast enough, and tax structures that reward leaving construction sites a mess of rubble and buildings unfinished,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
countries, the research finds that: 84 percent of outstanding loans in construction and real estate are backed by real estate. In transport and communication, that number drops to 29 percent. The US economy behaves markedly differently,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
require a shift in the traditional philanthropy mindset, Hamermesh says, from funding the construction of a new cancer pavilion to financing the development of specific therapies for cancer subtypes—a less visible, but potentially more... View Details