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- 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007
Business School Case 707-474 In 2006, newspaper firms in developed markets were severely threatened on three fronts: the growth of online news, online classified advertising, and free newspapers. Schibsted, however, had managed to cope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
Chemical's expansion in Argentina and its performance subsequent to the devaluation demonstrates how multinational firms can access worldwide product markets and capital markets when local View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
examined the performance of analysts on stocks to which they had school ties relative to those they did not. For example, a Harvard analyst would have a school tie to a firm that has a Harvard CEO, but no... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
told a specific goal," says Chung, noting that 80 percent of firms in the United States use some type of bonus to reward employees. The field experiment spanned six months in the second half of 2013, and involved 80 full-time salespeople... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
business schools. The upshot was the rise to global prominence of firms based in the Rest, including Foxcomm, Huawei, HNA, Cemex, and TCS. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52975 The Role of Taxes in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or "turns." "Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show," Klug says. "When the meal was over, the chef bowed, the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
question that has received less attention, however, is whether focus at the divisional level is complementary with, or a substitute for, focus at the firm level. We explore this question by considering the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the index selected 400 large and liquid View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
financial risks with targeted focus and great effectiveness. Contractual agreements, principally futures and swaps as well as options, have been central tools. Just as interest rate swaps have transformed what passive risks that banks, other financial institutions, and... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
extensively within their own levels, but there were virtually no cross-pay-grade interactions in the firm (other than mass e-mails and between administrative assistants and the managers they support). Q: What can managers take away from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Working PapersExploring Inventory Trends in Six U.S. Retail Segments Authors:Adenekan (Nick) Dedeke and Noel H. Watson Abstract Our paper describes inventory trends for both public and private U.S. firms in six retail segments between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2008
- Case
SPECIALISTERNE: Sense & Details
Three-quarters of Specialisterne's expert software testing staff are diagnosed with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Usually a handicap, ASD conveys talents especially suited to software testing and other highly repetitive tasks that require very high... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Health Disorders; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Quality; Software; Information Technology Industry
Austin, Robert D., Jonathan Wareham, and Javier Busquets. "SPECIALISTERNE: Sense & Details." Harvard Business School Case 608-109, February 2008.
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly held stocks if those stocks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace