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- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
make it happen," said HBS's Bill George. Scott Griffith, former chairman and CEO of Zipcar, said that the company crafted its mission statement around responsible urban living in part with the hope of attracting a committed team of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling shares in a jointly managed bank to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
for a customer base to change," Snow says, which does not bode well for a U.S. industry feeling pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
article is that if a manufacturer can go direct, then the manufacturer has an instrument that combines advertising, distribution, market research and all of the marketing functions in one. That's terrifically attractive to the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
traditional crossover journals and in shorter pieces like op-eds and blogs; and attracting the interest of those who write columns, blogs, and articles about research for practitioners. I conclude by describing a few ways that academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
a right-to-work law was not a major part of their election platform because of the union opposition they thought it would generate. Quietly, however, Republicans did support a right-to-work law that was expected to attract more jobs to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to hire faculty, build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring plan as early as 2000. By... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
competitive workforces and attract other industry; that clean water and renewable energy can reduce their costs and improve their products; and that well-housed citizens make better customers. Lagace: How can managers put the advice in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
starts to develop as entrepreneurs look to attract resources to grow their ventures. Investors need to understand the motivations of the entrepreneurs they back to make sure their goals are aligned. How Do I Turn Potential Into Profit?... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
No one organization can monopolize knowledge in any given field. That's why modern companies must develop a new expertise: the ability to attract novel solutions to difficult or unanticipated problems from outside sources around the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
Although Asian countries have been able to use cost advantages and software coding prowess to attract outsource business from around the world, the region is quickly moving up the value chain to challenge America's leadership in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that would attract and motivate a diverse global community. The challenge, of course, was to create a community of shared values and purpose from a much more diverse set of people ethnically, religiously, nationally, and so on. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Vadim, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—Over the past two years, conference realignment has taken a front seat in the college sports landscape. Economic incentives were too attractive to overlook for some universities. College football... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
was attracted to this effort because I thought I saw two potential sources of long-term value. First, on emerging markets, there’s a lot we don’t know. These videos dramatically supplement the quality of information we have. Second,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise entrepreneurial returns, thereby increasing net returns and attracting entrepreneurs. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
as entrepreneurs. Although historically there have been few, women are now seeing opportunities, and financing is becoming much more available. They previously saw that their path up the corporate ladder was not a particularly attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff