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- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
around town, firms operating in these types of highly competitive environments need to maintain strong internal linkages between units and create a culture of collaboration among workers across distances, according to the working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
services. “The process of creating those specialized inputs creates new knowledge, which eventually leads to more innovation,” Mills says. Supply chains have a large number of linkages to many different downstream industries. “They have... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
employers grow faster than their peers in the dataset. This offers some promise for the future. But, given the starkness of the COVID re-employment challenge, it will be more critical than ever to foster linkages between education... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Board Scorecard, and the Executive Scorecard. These Scorecards clarify goals, priorities, processes, and ownership, and define the linkages between desired financial results and the actions needed to achieve them. Context Professor Palepu... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
is fundamentally different. Is It Possible To Evaluate Differentiated Services? The question remains: how to evaluate the effectiveness of service units that offer differentiating outputs? Dave Norton and I argue that the cause-and-effect View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
(Grossman/Helpman, 1991). Exports, then, might not be beneficial per se, but only if they occur in the "right" activities. The empirical analyses tried to provide insights into the factual linkages between trade and growth. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
linkages he saw and analyzed. “Al Chandler had one of the best darn smiles this side of the Continental Divide." —Nancy F. Koehn Second, he wrote about the past but this work was always anchored by his own eye on the present. Al... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
are the long-term memory of the corporate brain." Most respondents, in one way or another and without mentioning it explicitly, suggested strong linkages between the health of the corporate brain and the organizational culture of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
PublicationsDoes Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? Exploring the Role of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Areendam Chanda, and Selin Sayek Publication:Journal of Development Economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
linkages between behavior and its consequences, words and actions, prescriptions and reality.” How do we restore those linkages? Are shareholders, particularly large institutional shareholders, in a position to do so through, for example,... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
call capacity and a set of sales tasks determined by business strategy. In turn, that analysis of strategy-sales linkages often changes students' minds about what to do about turnover in Clef's sales force. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
you do. You may also need to anticipate and shape linkages between value-net games and public interest games. But first we need to digress a bit to define these types of games and to explore the roles that government can play in them.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
electorate is not demanding change yet. The keiretsu system sounds, on the face of it, not unlike your theory of clusters. What is the difference? The keiretsu system involves the cross-ownership of companies in each other's equity. Like clusters, this creates View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
the other schools within Harvard. His challenges include attracting the best faculty and students, creating linkages across the university, and determining a strategy that will make Harvard engineering as well known as its other schools.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
state in which cross-border linkages can be forgotten about. So one does not have to make a precise forecast to diagnose that quasiglobalization as a condition is sufficiently broad to persist for some time to come. Achieving similar... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
programs can still be successful without the traditional partnership structure." But XTV's example, they continue, also suggests "some of the difficulties that these efforts encounter and the apparent importance of having a strong View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner