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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
technology expertise they need. And thus the link to savings—to attract an investor, companies must put collateral into the project: money from savings. With access to technology, the company improves its productivity and contributes to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
isolating settings where analysts would benefit more from either increased comparability or higher quality information, we document that the improvement in the information environment is driven both by information and comparability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
ability to improve performance by understanding and predicting customer behavior. Can you illustrate some of the things that Harrah's does in this area? A: Harrah's does a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
were: What part of the job demands rationality? Yaron Kaufman suggested that "Managers must be rational when it comes to planning, financing, operating and measuring business performance . Irrational... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
based on their performance under stressful conditions. They must be bound by a sound governance system and constraints that require them to acknowledge their responsibilities to their organizations. Developing this new leadership... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
thought: "Safety precautions, etc. are reactive approaches. The proactive approach will be to involve under-privileged peoples in constructive work, (help them) improve their standard of living, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Compensation and Firm Performance Authors:Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract Using a sample View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge. "The delay was a big surprise," says Bo Becker, who coauthored the paper with colleagues Daniel B. Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian. "Nobody thought the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate." During his tenure, Andersen had divided what had previously been operated as almost a single entity into separate lines... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708448 Children's Hospital and Clinics (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 608-073 Explores the numerous initiatives Children's Hospital and Clinics has undertaken to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: How can marketing better align with corporate strategy? Can you place a... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
produce benefits, particularly in light of what's going on now in terms of a number of these privatized firms being de-listed? What is the role View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name... View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
discussion of other performance criteria, but the shareholder value standard remained dominant. Nevertheless, these companies managed to perform well against competitors. Now the Business Roundtable has... View Details