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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies Authors: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski, and Suraj Srinivasan Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
States will reassert itself. Likewise, the trade links among British Commonwealth countries will be revitalized. Look for the UK to also accelerate its expanding business links with China. Brexit is not only bad news for the European ... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
"make the numbers work." Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/busse-place-b-marisa-s-dilemma/an/214104-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-496 Babcock International Plc. In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
product managers spent on average only three percent of their time in contact with end consumers. Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, spends two days a week in stores interacting with employees and customers. But how far... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
http://hbr.org/product/winning-in-emerging-markets-a-road-map-for-strateg/an/13216-HBK-ENG?N=4294958505%204294934481 The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Publication:Chap. 2 in Platforms, Markets and Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
The case concerns bidding and negotiations strategies as well as deal structuring issues. In particular, the cross border nature of the investment, a UK firm investing in Norway, leads to a number of financing issues related to raising... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
we care about. Care about the sound of our own voice (E or I) and we don’t listen. Care about the other person too, and things shift radically.” Alan ArnettLondon, UK Re: "Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
but also includes Finland (according to Nina Rautiainen), the UK (Andrew Swayne), and India (Kamil Kumar Sopory). Ravindra Edirisooriya put it succinctly: "These 'small' businesses did not go into business with the idea of creating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-id=_/5WV9qIO851dKEzcCnWEy][/div] We found that roughly 33 percent of US shoppers and 20 percent of those in the UK had not purchased from online retailers before the pandemic. In March, that figure decreased slightly to 32 percent... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
M. Ketels Publication:In Productive Partnerships: The Role of Employment Relations in Growing the UK Economy, edited by Tony Pilch, pp. 12-23. London: The Smith Institute, 2006. Publishers link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large UK banks over a period of six years. Our analysis highlights that a process we term toolmaking, whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
you share these ideas? A: Of course, once you write something like this, you come to see many things through these lenses. As reported in the Financial Times in October, several UK firms including Shire Pharmaceuticals and WPP Group have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
dealers and consumers alike. The other products in the line—and their relative prices—hinge on the midfield entry. “Midfield is a moving target.” A company controls midfield by fielding a complete product line that includes backs and forwards. In its supermarkets,... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
https://hbr.org/product/pfizer-s-centers-for-therapeutic-innovation-cti/615024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-027 Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's fourth largest bank by assets) is forced by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
media empire: his reputation for ruthlessness. Murdoch is on the line for the phone-hacking scandal in the UK and faces potential bribery charges that reach to the US under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He might be sued by the... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
gone from hundreds of thousands of state-owned businesses down to around 20,000. Meanwhile, developed countries including Australia, Canada, France, Japan, and the UK have each gone from hundreds to dozens of companies that are either... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
and acrimony in Scotland, with those wishing their country to remain part of the UK often accused of being traitors and sellouts. The referendum on staying or leaving the European Union, called entirely because of Cameron’s desire to hold... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
with these markers of poor market performance? Q: And what’s your response to that? Dafny: It is heavily linked to the limited and diminishing degree of competition in so many health care sectors. Sadun: And we actually see that in the data. Researchers in the View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
was acquired about ten years ago by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). RBS has been fiercely criticized and is perhaps the worst UK example of bad bank behavior surfaced by the current crisis. RBS advertising these days is minimal; advertising... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1af09bde-47f9-4364-bad6-aaac464be909.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-008 The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity After struggling through the country's longest recession... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne