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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
performance throughout his career. We highlighted McVay’s penchant for surrounding himself with effective staff and willingness to delegate tasks to them. Here, we raise another skill of his that bodes well for long-term success: a strong... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on... 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
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
RCA's patents to licensing by domestic competitors royalty-free. This externality had a dramatic impact on the long-term health of the U.S. consumer electronics industry. The associated (B) case is 614-073. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
long-term vision for partnerships and innovation. The case portrays key questions concerning how the partnership process was formalized through the development of the ORP, and what innovations these new partnerships would bring to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
tensions by explicitly assigning responsibility for different values to specific people. Senior managers focus on short-term goals; HR is responsible for reminding them about long-term goals such as developing employees. These different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
competitive pressures in a saturated market. As 2018 dawned, all parties were assessing the deal’s implications. Had the stock market overreacted to news of the deal? Why was Amazon buying Whole Foods? What were the long-term implications... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
capital allocation decisions over a 10-year period from 2004 to 2013, during which IBM returned more than $140B to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. During this time, CEO Sam Palmisano created, announced, and then regularly updated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Minguela must navigate. Minguela must also decide whether her long-term goal of an incubator-like platform for Spain is really feasible. The case describes how her vision differs from Rocket Internet-a large German incubator that also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes justified as an embodiment of Japanese culture, the opacity of Japanese corporations is credited with empowering managers to make long-term business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and short-term bonds forecasts positively future excess returns on bonds at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
focused people on the long-term impact, so disposable products need to be more environmentally friendly. Again, it's not the words, it's the conversation. It's the actions of top leaders and the fact that they get successes out of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
But some of the world's most successful organizations instead stay small, sharing their load with like-minded, long-term partners. The success of these networked nonprofits suggests that organizations should focus less on growing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
we believe can be quite important to the long-term survival of organizations and the contribution they make to society at large. As organizational scholarship and management practice have shifted away from thinking about the connection... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 318-089 City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
behalf. The partners are confident their long-term returns will validate their investment strategy and positioning in the increasingly competitive VC market. Will investors agree? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
among them was a severe cash flow constraint that prevented Frederic Schreurs from properly forecasting and investing resources to maximize the BIP’s impact. As traffic inched along, Sanginga contemplated how he could steer both the BIP and the agripreneurs program... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman