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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
reduce the total dollar volume of contracts with accused firms; however, they substitute approximately 14% of the harder-to-monitor cost-plus contracts for fixed-price contracts. This effect is concentrated in the procurement of services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
CSC fits into IBM's broader corporate citizenship portfolio and IBM's globalization strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409106 Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A) Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
working this into the broader goals of the host country to fit with the government's development priorities. What MCC has in common with Acumen is that it's using the grant as leverage to build the capacity of government agencies to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
pays back" is embedded in Indupalma's competitive strategy, but it also serves its risk management, since one of the company's primary objectives is to reduce the threat of armed groups affecting their operations. This kind of double motivation derived from a very... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
other academic institution in the world. For three-quarters of a century, the Bulletin has tracked the extraordinary record of achievement of HBS alumni. And so it seems fitting that at the dawn of a new millennium, we should draw upon... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Elephants By: Okada, Isao, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—In recent years, the total spending on hosting the Olympic Games has snowballed. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games spent $40 billion on infrastructure development, and the 2014 Sochi... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
search affiliated sellers (stores). There are three motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total consumer traffic for higher revenues per consumer visit, 2)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks off the World Cup 12 miles across... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The spread of MERS had been limited since its emergence in Saudi Arabia in 2012, with only about 2,500 total cases globally, but one in three infections... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
to manage the risk of the total portfolio. Over the period 1975-2005, we find that a risk-minimizing global equity investor should short the Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, and British pound but should hold long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
with the father of an MIT professor named Joe Jacobson, who was working on something at the MIT Media Lab that might fit the bill. What Wilcox saw when he followed up on Rayport’s lead — a thumb-sized patch of electronic ink smeared on a... View Details
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creating substantial new business opportunities that are often overlooked by global companies." More recently, however, countervailing analyses and media reports, like The New York Times', "'Africa Rising'? 'Africa Reeling' May Be More View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
project received funding totaling over $1.2 million and were able to re-hire all 900 of their employees. JUNE 1 Arnel F. Almira, who is currently enrolled in OPM 54, is CEO of Alfa All Food Asia, a B2B distributor of imported fresh frozen... View Details