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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
partial corporate funding could then be sold to prospective investors as a way to kick-start things. — HBS Senior Lecturer Jeff Bussgang I do like the idea of offering an upfront prepay deal. Like your business, mine (different industry) has been month to month instead... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown to rationalize deposit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
treat the company. So it’s a mirror; it’s totally different than in the West. Any advice for American business schools? I really believe that a new social contract has to emerge between businesses and the communities where they operate.... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
organization's relational capacity. The benefits will reverberate throughout every dimension of the company's work. Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances Authors:David T. Robinson and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
low-wage workers.” Another point of view rejects the notion that such a competition exists. David Wittenberg commented, “Workers don’t ‘compete for your profits,’ they contract to provide services for a wage shareholders have the right to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
item in the collection is the memoir Jay Cooke wrote late in life. Also noteworthy are the agreements Cooke made with other firms, in particular an 1869 contract between Cooke and the Northern Pacific Railroad. Collection Guide... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
make sure that in the drive to add new customers, existing clients whose contracts were expiring were not "slipping through the cracks" when it came time to renew. But who within the company should be responsible for renewals?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Centre. “It was time to cash in on my public profile and cement the connection in people’s minds between training and job placement and Sarina Russo,” she explains. To fill the center’s nine vacant floors, Russo won government contracts... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
about 22,000 employees and made about 4.5 billion Swiss Francs (or $4.589 billion USD) in sales in 2015, managed 1.5 million tools under fleet management contracts in 40 countries, resulting in a contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- January 1989 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
General Electric: Compliance Systems
By: Robert L. Simons
After General Electric (GE) is indicted in 1985 for defrauding the Department of Defense, Chairman John F. Welch takes dramatic steps to prevent a recurrence. This case documents the new systems and procedures that are put in place to ensure that all GE employees are... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Communication; Business History; Behavior; Boundaries; Management Style; Cost Management; Electronics Industry
Simons, Robert L. "General Electric: Compliance Systems." Harvard Business School Case 189-081, January 1989. (Revised June 1993.)
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
let's just not allow our customers to do it," he says. That might mean lobbying for legislation, suing in court, or making customers sign contracts that prevent decoupling. After Aereo allowed viewers to stream TV programs over the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The offshoring of consumer electronics production (often View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to crowdsource competence by making data public and offering a reward for the best algorithm. A simple model suggests that open tournaments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
utility had made a public announcement it was accepting bids to implement a smart water network monitoring system, and Peleg wanted to discuss if and how aggressively TaKaDu should bid on the contract with his management team. TaKaDu... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
by Talent Alpha, which appears to act as an agency. Therefore the client has to have a decent process to manage remote programmers, bring them into project teams, and test and integrate their code. Perhaps the early contracts will put the... View Details