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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks performing a View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Earnings Announcements Authors: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract We consider measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have invested in the past five years have grown more quickly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006 Abstract Can financial integration, particularly the cross-border investments of multinational firms, help explain the synchronization of business cycles? This paper presents evidence on the comovement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
has served as the host of business programs on radio and television. The Players Hendersen Photo courtesy BCG Bruce Henderson When one-time Bible salesman Bruce Henderson died in 1992, the Financial Times declared that “few people have... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US assets. After running a regression... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. To open the proverbial "black box" and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
with the organization as it's building its capacity and figuring out its accountability priorities. But that's still relatively rare. The third issue is the difference between financial and social metrics. We have a system of generally... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
already dominated by Microsoft, and given that the financial motive is secondary, it will be very hard for anyone to oust Linux. The organizational stream of research on OSS has identified several drivers of motivation to contribute to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management financial incentives to discourage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
review analysis for predicting restaurant inspection results. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/hygiene.pdf August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas By: King, Andrew, and Karim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2022
- Supplement
Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-400, May 2022.