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- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
be higher and the pay-for-performance sensitivity will be lower relative to a scenario in which the measure is not mandated. In contrast, if the mandated measure's informativeness dominates the measure's sensitivity to effort, then effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
fast charger ports increased 248%.” In an interview with Climate Stories, Erika said she was delighted to have seen seven ads during this year’s Super Bowl LVI featuring a vehicle with a plug. “Super Bowl ads are usually dominated by gas... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to the market may View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently raging, outside of the public eye, between the advocates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
many industries. Extant papers largely assume that platforms dominate the pricing decision, whereas in practice, prices in business-to-business transactions are often determined by a bargaining process. We study how the relative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the same individual (Search Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Four businesses had, by 2012, grown to dominate the infrastructure that all firms rely on to reach online customers. Will the balance of power among the four persist, will one take command at the expense of the other three, or are all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
locally need to design processes and organizations that are more effective at executing on the knowledge for care. Although the previous chapters have described some principles for designing care, and several specific designs, they have deliberately not specified a... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
reporters about how Sony planned to respond to Nintendo's Wii console, which was dramatically leading Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles in sales. The Wii's supremacy was especially disconcerting to Hirai, given that Sony had View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
to sell insurance in the country. During the next five years China's non-life insurance industry grew from $8.3 billion in 2001 to $15.9 billion in 2005. Yet in 2007, domestic insurers continued to dominate market share and, Chubb had not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
the graphics processor unit (GPU), ultimately became the most valuable parts of the chain. The GPU business had settled into a duopoly with Nvidia, Inc. and ATI Technologies (ATI). Intel had dominated the microprocessor segment, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several years, there has been a View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
next generation must be formally groomed to ensure we remain globally competitive.” As a group, the Chirchirillos have attended the weeklong HBS Executive Education offering Families in Business. Daughter Trisha (OPM 36, 2007) and son Anthony View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
other two skills are about the flip side of that creative output: creative agility is the ability to effectively experiment and learn; creative resolution is about making decisions that prevent simple compromise or domination by one... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
organization among enterprises specializing in overseas ventures, they did not become the dominant form of large enterprises within British economy itself. Business groups organized under the holding company such as Calico Printers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart's leadership had targeted the rapidly growing e-commerce arena as a strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
in Oral Care Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-120 In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive (Colgate) was the global leader in oral care, with a dominant market share lead in toothpaste and a growing presence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the rating agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen