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- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
effectively use the resources at his disposal within IMG, such as the sales division, which keeps in close contact with the corporate world; IMG's promotion and event marketing, which may feature Sharapova; and other divisions, like the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the data used in our study, but seem to... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
aligned. It was what we call in the book "forging strategic identity." Sometimes, usually with startups, this is done at the beginning of the CEO's tenure. In other instances this way of thinking develops over time. This process is often... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
shareholders as well as other interested stakeholders with rather elaborate information on the company's operations and strategic activities during the preceding fiscal year. However, in the last two decades and in addition to these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
"Holacracy in its form of each individual taking responsibility for their own self-management is absolutely necessary, however it is the responsibility of 'managers ' to ensure effectiveness of the organization through coordination... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Summing Up Stretch—its meaning, uses, and pitfalls—could fill a book, judging from responses to this month's column. First, there appears to be limited agreement about what stretch is and how it works. Some saw it as a variation on long-range planning. Others saw it as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
environment in which employees are constantly motivated and can effectively balance their commitment to the firm and to the client, as well as to themselves. EE: What are the factors that make professional service firms successful?... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Heart Harvard Business School Case 507-025 The firm has to choose between an established brand, Tanishq, and a new skunkworks brand, GoldPlus, to go after the Indian plain gold jewelry market: Tanishq, initially targeted at a western customer, has undergone View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
Abstract In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price they charge for their service. The objective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of organizational features during growth; the second, their dramatic change. We juxtapose the two narratives to reveal ongoing gaps in the study of how growth can effect change along three dimensions: organizational design, team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
absent in the “2020-2021 Class of Lift Outs.” The lack of cultural integration may even be a short-term plus, freeing new recruits to devote their energies entirely to the tasks at hand, without the cognitive burden and social stress of learning new names or navigating... View Details