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- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had businesses when you were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
203's 85% threshold to 70%. Like the middle-ground approach on staggered boards, this amendment-to a single number-would also represent good policy: facilitating high-premium offers that attract a supermajority of disinterested shares, but also providing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
the privilege of collecting loyalty card customer data. As former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy put it in his recent book referring to the 1 percent loyalty discount: "It was a thank you, pure and simple." Can such small rewards... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Furthermore, now that the Obama Administration has offered "any type of assistance" to the rebels, there is even less incentive for them to damage the oilfields. Although production is down because the companies operating in the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
fatalities. Second, mass shootings account for a small portion of all gun deaths but have an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Third, when looking at bills that were actually enacted into law, the impact of mass shootings... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
her and women's golf as a whole. She had achieved just enough for now. Instead of defeat, she got energy. Maximization Does Not Work as a Measure of Success What is the right measure of success in your eyes? What is it for your company or... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
debts, substantial store closures and workforce reductions, and sufficient new private equity capital to help reposition and revitalize Daiei's retail operations. Overcoming these hurdles in a large and visible company like Daiei would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
because a relative's company needed a small amount of the ingredient to make a local product. Once the real motivation surfaced, a compromise quickly followed. Understanding the other side's motives and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
413-031 Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The firm employed about 150 professionals around the globe and had completed over 175 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
Heineken in the Netherlands, or Cargill or Mars in the United States are the tip of a huge iceberg of successful and long-lived family firms worldwide. Even today around a third of Fortune 500 companies are family controlled. Business and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs that limit advertisers' interest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each month at the company. And they... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
seeking by the managers. However, this increase in market size will lead to the entry of more firms, which calls for more decentralized decision making. Under reasonable conditions, the aggregate effect leads to a U-shaped relationship where firms in both View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
equalize the distribution of small (or large) tokens rather than equalizing total earnings. When payoffs are comprised of time and money, subjects similarly equalize the distribution of time (or money) rather than total payoffs. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
case-method teaching, but that focus was actually the second of what he called "the two great adventures" of his career. Born in 1919 in Tyler, Minnesota, Christensen grew up in Iowa City, where his father was a professor at the University of Iowa, and his... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52079 January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship By: Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff Abstract—An increasingly popular route to success as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
therefore, to see how this law will be implemented in practice. In addition, there are likely to be some unintended negative consequences. Will the new derivatives rules pull in various industrial companies that will now have to use... View Details
Keywords: by Staff