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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a global leader in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
charge higher interest rates when they have market power, more so to smaller firms that have fewer outside options for external finance. These findings highlight a "darker side" to decentralized banks and suggest that the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
by Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt, considered whether firms should and do engage extensively in CSR. This essay, in other words, considered empirical evidence. Reinhardt found that relatively few firms do engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
funds-of-funds do not add value compared to hedge funds. However, funds-of-funds should not be evaluated relative to hedge fund returns in publicly reported databases. Instead, the correct funds-of-funds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
performance dimensions, including both lower cost and increased differentiation. Successful organizations achieve the latter in 2 ways; first, by leveraging a partner's superior capabilities and skills, and second, by accessing a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
institutions and undertakings. The apparent level of student and faculty interest was relatively low, but our belief was that there was significant latent demand. The apparent level of student and faculty interest was View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
leadership roles. The top executives agreed that it was important to put the right people in leadership positions, particularly those who support the mission and spread the word. Performance evaluations can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
relatively soon? How will the Metaverse affect productivity? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note: Heskett explores the leader's role in his upcoming book, Win From Within: Build Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money operator, we View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
sorting process in industry were generally more sympathetic to business school admissions offices and the Herculean task they face in taking values into consideration in admissions. As Linda Abraham said, "Considering that ... time devoted to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
components. Characteristics of the offered secondary attributes such as their perceived value, relative importance, and evaluability can therefore determine whether price partitioning stimulates or hinders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
believe that the process of voting has resulted in an unacceptable outcome. More generally, we show that procedural justice plays a key mediating role in determining the relative success or failure of various empowerment initiatives—from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
market as a whole experienced high returns relative to Treasury bills. In the spirit of Fischer Black’s 1993 article “Beta and Return,” published in this journal, the author takes seriously the idea that this evidence reflects a risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne