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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
How will the proposed new complex be received be faculty, students, alumni, neighbors, and the public? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208079 Crossing Borders: Notes on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
distributional issues, and the likely effects of reforms to tax provisions such as the AMT are considered. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14149 Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles Authors:Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
spirit and in practice, organizational conversation is quite different from corporate communication. The latter function grew naturally out of the command-and-control model. Top-down and one-way in its orientation, corporate communication... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular normative view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be accountable to everyone for everything? The challenge for leadership and View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, and competitive uncertainty. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
short, "The economic crisis in which the country now finds itself reflects not the failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system."... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
365 learn from consumer usage patterns and documents, personalizing their user interfaces by selecting which quick-access functions to display and incorporating new words and expressions into their correction dictionaries. Moreover, some... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
entrepreneurs, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn. In Part One of a discussion about her recent book—in the April 16 issue of HBS Working Knowledge—Koehn described the brand-building savvy of three entrepreneurs in the past, as well as their clear lessons for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
included virtual onboarding, sales-pipeline restructuring, performance management, M&A acquisition, managing layoffs and furloughs, rethinking the customer experience, and creating financial projections with an unprecedented number of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
revenues, and earnings plunged by 63%, resulting in ITG's first unprofitable quarter since 1988. Gasser was convinced that ITG's challenges were not simply a function of shrinking trading volumes; 2009's downturn revealed limits of client... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
cells and tissue to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. In late 2008 Tengion management faces a difficult dilemma. In light of the financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding, and Vikram Oberoi, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne