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- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
archival and published sources. Similar to recent studies that emphasize the importance of income, political decentralization, and the level of political voice to the spread of primary education in developed economies, we also find these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, demonstrates that such a strategy usually beats the more cautious approach of spreading around lower-amount investments in a larger number of projects, a recipe for... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
volume have highlighted, much is still not yet known about the venture capital industry. The extent to which the U.S. venture model will spread overseas and the degree to which the American model will — or can — be successfully adapted... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
they are not executed well at the stores." Boots on the ground matter a lot. "When there aren't enough workers on the selling floor, it's those ‘boring supply-chain activities' that are affected first," Ton observes. "If employees are View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
a single quarter last year, invested $3.8 billion in Internet start-ups. But, is the get-big-fast strategy right for everyone? To what extent is its payoff dependent on speculative excess in the capital markets? These probing questions captured the View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The three of us thought that in the context of the economic and social problems at the turn of the 21st century—not COVID-19 but plenty of other concerns—it would be interesting to assemble groups of outstanding business leaders to learn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
the process is a long one, is it even practical to begin it in organizations with "continuity-challenged" leadership? Is there any real purpose served by academics in continuing to spread the word about upside down management... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
cannot be attributed to the usual suspects of success: superior business models or cutting edge technology. Holt is interested in what makes identity brands resonate. In his research, he focuses on the best-performing identity brands—the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
commercialization of important new drugs to the detriment of consumers. Interestingly, though, at public hearings, the AstraZeneca chief executive championed the interests of patients in opposing the proposed merger. Consumers worldwide... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
People will count on their cell phone as the "hub" of their digital life, using it to access and collect information, entertainment, and other forms of data, which can then be spread to other devices as needed. One For All? That... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Working PapersIn Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene Abstract Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Security and Exchange Commission mandated that publicly traded companies had to disclose all material information to their investors at the same time. The researchers found that after the introduction of that rule, the return spread of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition on all sides. Andres Obregon... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
investors than they absorb in new investment funds. From 1982-2010, repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950-2010, repatriated earnings and net interest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. All things being equal,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne