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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Sticky Capital Controls

By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andres Fernandez
There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Macroprudential Policies; Stickiness; Intensive; (S, S) Costs; Capital; Management; Macroeconomics
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  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

proved difficult to change ingrained routines and practices. Shared values and strong networks kept Unilever together, but the need for agreement and discussion before taking action meant that it was hard to move quickly on major issues. It took twenty years to View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 09 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Painted in broad brush strokes, the contract emphasizes goals and outcomes, and is light on policy and implementation details. Of course, having begun many a sentence with the words "A Trump administration will..." he now has to... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

implemented in Colorado in 2017. College for all? Fuller, who is faculty co-director of the Harvard Project on Workforce, says that “the US has had a rallying cry of ‘college for all’ in the last 30 years. It’s a great ambition.” “We have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Mar 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

Googles of the world use our information. The primary goal is the protection of privacy. Unfortunately, as we are seeing in the Facebook controversies, this is difficult to implement even by well-meaning business leaders. Others have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
  • Web

The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

implementing new shared value business models Governments Tax and regulate business; operate social programs Make platform investments and support shared value strategies; regulate to encourage shared value solutions Companies Donate to... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

and I simply argue that goals have gone wild in terms of their impact on other unmeasured outcomes. When we factor in the consistent findings that stretch and specific goals both narrow focus on a limited set of behaviors while increasing risk-taking and unethical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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  • March 2016
  • Article

Using Quality Improvement Methods and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Improve Value-Based Cancer Care Delivery at a Cancer Genetics Clinic

By: R.Y. Tan, M. Met-Domestici, K. Zhou, A.B. Guzman, S.T. Lim, K.C. Soo, T.W. Feeley and J. Ngeow
Purpose:
To meet increasing demand for cancer genetic testing and improve value-based cancer care delivery, National Cancer Centre Singapore restructured the Cancer Genetics Service in 2014. Care delivery processes were redesigned. We sought to improve access by... View Details
Keywords: Cancer Treatment; Value Based Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Performance Improvement; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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    Building Sustainable Cities

    By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

      Building A Culture of Health

      This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four... View Details

      • July 2013 (Revised August 2017)
      • Case

      TaKaDu

      By: Elie Ofek and Matthew Preble
      In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an innovative software system that used patented algorithms and statistical analysis to... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Customer Selection; Business Marketing; High-tech Marketing; Enterprise Resource Planning; Water Resources; Water Management; Utilities; Product Positioning; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Australia; Israel
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      • 19 Jan 2024
      • News

      The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

      Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
      • 01 Feb 1999
      • News

      Too Much of a Good Thing?

      growing. And some cyclical industries may even intentionally overbuild. All in all, "it's hard to say that there's an exact amount of production that's appropriate at any point in time at any given price," Emmons cautions. The Rush to View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons
      • Web

      Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

      can be used to inform the University’s implementation of its Sustainability Plan. Up to $25,000 in funding. Harvard University Student Grant Program : Provide students with up to $5,000 in seed funding to support new ideas and innovative... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2019
      • News

      Bridging the Gap

      cities. Nor do they measure success by how faithfully a city group implements its whiteboard project. (This year’s presentations included a pledge to increase participation in the 2020 census; an effort to close the skills gap for nursing... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
      • 21 Jun 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: June 21

      shares. Further delay in implementing this reform will put Shenzhen Development Bank into jeopardy as the bank will not be allowed to raise the additional capital it very much needed, but the negotiation between Newbridge and other... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

      unlocking ESG value. Key Themes: ESG and activism may in fact be a source of financial and impact alpha; however, the path from theory to implementation is still being tested. Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest... View Details