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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
separate chairman can begin to be more active and try to control the CEO.” Q: On another front, when it comes to corporate governance, the pros and cons of separating the roles... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
Wipro, a major business process outsourcing company based in Bangalore, India, that provides telephone and chat support for its global customers. Traditionally, Wipro's orientation for call center employees... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
making social enterprise an attractive setting to study hybrid organizing. Based on a literature review of organizational research on social enterprise and on our own research in this domain, we develop five... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
funds, and money managers are natural active investors, but they have been shut out of boardrooms and strategy by the legal structure, by custom,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson Periodical:Journal of Cost Management 21, no. 2 (March-April 2007): 5-15 Abstract Activity-based costing has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
organization's different tiers have overlapping responsibilities; together they create a multilayered net to catch any problems that arise. Second, managers at all levels serve as integrators, coordinating diverse View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
testing and iteration without significant capital investment, physical infrastructure, or long-term commitments. The cloud allows for seamless scaling based on demand, facilitates more efficient staff View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
of an Italian design based bicycle manufacturer evaluates if reducing costs by outsourcing would impact its brand. The company was founded in 2005 in Italy by three friends, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
executives were able to better price their products and services. It was now possible to price each transaction based on the value it created for the customer, as well as on its cost. As activity-based View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have to look deeper. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, reflects on the book's implications for managers and executives. Martha Lagace: What is there of interest to a businessperson in this book? D. Quinn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
given predictable, reliable, low-cost care) and iterative (the patient’s condition is unknown; tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with uncertain outcomes). To reduce... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the economics, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
venture process. The presence of such expertise on the part of lawyers, accountants, and real estate brokers, among others, has substantially lowered the transaction costs associated with forming View Details