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- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
gain to the other and is equivalent to decreasing the dispersion of the latter's values for the items he does not receive without changing their total. One-agent monotonicity requires that such a change should not hurt the first agent,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
are the first to learn of changing customer needs, first to see competitors' marketing strategies in action, and first to encounter new regulatory initiatives. Top management increasingly relies on the ability of its geographically and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
crucial, especially for managers trying to lead widely dispersed teams during difficult times, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev. Many managers believe in maintaining emotional boundaries with employees, but... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
standards are. The authors include a useful assessment tool to help readers get started. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/01/are-you-a-good-boss-or-a-great-one/ar/1# The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits Authors:Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
about 400 such systems with a total of 150,000 subscribers. Thus, cable TV was born of necessity very shortly after the mass market for television broadcasting began to grow. 3 The first CATV systems carried only three channels, which... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
corporate governance. “When you think of the factors that have made capitalism such a successful model for economic growth, the separation between management and ownership, with the ability to disperse ownership and risk over many... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
problem at the World Bank? A: It is not a new idea that politics drive the allocation of aid decisions. But the view of politics that we normally have is that donors like the United States, Japan, or France may reward their friends rather than simply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and labor View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
wide array of projects, but their work wasn’t at all connected. What I saw as the institution’s greatest strength was its combination of field-based conservation work and policy work, but it was dispersed across 100 countries. We decided... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
large private firms in the services sector. Rates of return also have remained stable over time and show low dispersion across sectors and across ownership groups within sectors. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
continental perspective. My goal is not to be elusive but to avoid restricting the strategies to a particular geographic scale. Particularly with large countries, the logic of the strategies can apply to intranational as well as international regions. Oil companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
"unraveled" and experienced transactions at dispersed and apparently inefficiently early times. Often these markets develop institutions to coordinate and delay the timing of transactions. However... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to minimize the burden of size on management. As he put it, " if you keep teams small, View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has a positive effect on project efficiency but not on project quality. However, when we examine two moderators, geographic dispersion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
counterparts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55026 Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies By: Athey, Susan, and Michael Luca Abstract—As technology platforms have created new markets and new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite another to actually do it.... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of trusted appointees (known internally as the "Dutch Mafia"), whose understanding of Philips technology, commercial objectives, and overall strategy provided the major link between the parent company and its dispersed national... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman