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  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing, have successfully incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

expansion." In this excerpt, they detail seven such strategies that corporate leaders can pursue. Pick Up the Scraps. As Peter Drucker recently noted, for every megamerger or large acquisition, there are usually several spin-offs, divestments, or asset View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically vulnerable in the first place. Publisher's link: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4820.pdf August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected; performance with targeted customers and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as broadband that provide simultaneous, high-speed transmission... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

  Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

practical use by managers or teaching by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Climate Custodians By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

Rhetoric and Independence Are Not Enough: Empowering Managers and Directors to Do What Is Right, you challenge the adequacy of the Business Roundtable's assertion that the selection of a well-qualified and ethical CEO is the most... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy for consumers. Finally, the Treasury's preference to migrate the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction, and an increase in the extent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

aeronautic plant, I demonstrate how an implicitly negotiated leniency between management and workers around the use of company materials and tools, on company time, to produce artifacts for personal use, enhances workers' identities. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2016
  • Supplement

24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Age; Training; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Organizational Design; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Web Sites; Value; Valuation; Health Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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  • 20 Mar 2012
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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
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

moving upmarket to challenge the industry leaders. They point out that Uber, commonly hailed as a disrupter, doesn’t actually fit the mold, and they explain that if managers don’t understand the nuances of disruption theory or apply its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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