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- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management team wishes to better align the company’s operating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
clients. A critical component of the One-Firm initiative was a technology-enabled performance management system that articulated metrics for individual and group performance and aligned these with the overall performance of IDFC. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
cannot price discriminate among stores because the intermediaries' incentives are aligned with the marginal stores. Second, competition among intermediaries may lead to more or less search diversion relative to monopoly, depending on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
decide which customers to serve and which to turn away, configuring pricing strategies to align with the value delivery stream customers experience, and determining whether inbound marketing programs can generate enough scale or whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
impact coming from? Lisa Lewin: First, I think what we have seen from consumers has been incredible. Their increasing commitment to spending money on companies and brands aligned with their values has been an incredible, catalyzing force... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
strategies; and aligned risk, compensation, and performance. What if they had been true stewards of other people’s money? Surely, they would have reduced the incalculable financial devastation and human suffering that has followed. We... View Details
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
a higher price without raising its multiple. If the private equity firm wins the bidding contest, the profit model subsequently becomes a blueprint for managing the turnaround company and aligning company management to the required... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
of a U.S. retail chain) to centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office). While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect the unit managers’... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
only central to attract and retain the best human capital for the startup, but it is critical to align incentives between investors and management. This note provides a framework to think about compensation in startup ventures and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
potential. Without the larger firm investing again in Maricopa, the business was at risk of going under. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/maricopa-inc-finding-the-right-treatment-for-growth/an/314065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-034 Go Mobile:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
about how this time and money could be more effectively spent. Philanthropy is not the answer. A way must be found to align the profit-making capabilities of MNCs more effectively to poverty reduction, especially in those countries that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
Schoonbeek. “I gave myself a few months after leaving McKinsey to ideate on the topics that aligned with my passions and the business problems I could address based on my background.” Meanwhile, van Poecke was closely collaborating with... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS
population. A classmate of Yoonjin’s who had worked at RapidSOS “spoke highly of the company, the CEO, and everyone he worked with,” she says. It was the right size for her interests, and was entering a new stage of growth in which an intern could make considerable... View Details
- 13 May 2015
- Blog Post
Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive
internship? The most applicable lessons I learned from my RC year were softer skills on leadership especially around aligning incentives. I was able to communicate to all the stakeholders on my project in the language they wanted to hear.... View Details
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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge
medium-sized enterprises in the US and Canada who were surveyed on the Alignable networking platform in late March. The answers, gathered just before the US government announced tariffs on imports from countries worldwide, illustrate how... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
impact does not occur as expected, due to evidence risk, external risk, stakeholder participation/drop-off risk, efficiency risk, execution risk, alignment risk, endurance risk, or unexpected impact risk. View Details
- 17 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Tech for the People
Box to archive videos of city council meetings, and a registry designed with IBM to monitor rent-control compliance. “It’s incredible how much I learned about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
technology and processes to support customers that align with their entrepreneurial culture. If you are a professional today buying from Home Depot, an app on your phone lets you order directly from the job site and gives you the option... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Consumers are the gatekeepers of their personal information and choose whether to sign up for the firm's service and how much personal information to provide. The incentives of consumers and those of the firm are aligned with respect to... View Details