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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
could use to evaluate and track their own company's ethical performance. And this is when the project got really complicated. For starters, there was the issue of buy-in. The researchers discovered that some companies balked at the idea... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
it very difficult to track the financial impact of marketing investments, and so marketing becomes abstract to both the CEO and board. Q: What are the consequences of not having this alignment? A: When a firm's marketing activities are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
by the businesses, in my view. Instead, it was a measurement error, resulting from the inevitable uncertainties of assessing early-stage technologies. Nevertheless, having three out of thirty-five projects turn out to be "positives" is not a bad View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Even though each of the businesses may be well-run, investors may place too low a value on the overall portfolio. Restructuring tools like tracking stock, stock buybacks, or leverage buyouts, can be used to reduce this kind of value gap.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
luggage and screen passengers for traces of explosives and narcotics. Public transit systems deploy the company’s surveillance cameras. Homes and offices rely on GE’s security and fire alarm equipment. Exporters install the company’s tiny monitors to View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
feeding the markup shocks observed in Japan during the early 1990s, the model is able to generate time series for output, TFP, employment, consumption, and investment that track closely the actual data. In particular, the productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
values and we as a company had—these were not, I think, clearly articulated at the time—but we really believe privacy is a right. Users on Reddit are anonymous. We don’t target based on your demographic profile or tracking you all around... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
patient identification, enrollment, billing, and payment. Patients were prospectively identified and enrolled, and bundled payments were made at treatment start. Operational metrics tracked incremental effort for pilot processes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
entered the industry with health care dashboards that track and aggregate data from various health wearables, such as heart rate monitors and step counters. Apple is also partnering with several EMR companies to make medical records and... View Details
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
day when board members sit around the table and simply wonder how we can dig ourselves out of the hole we’re in.” On balance, the firm excels at solving even the toughest problems, as evidenced by its track record as a top-tier firm. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
to Bonaparte’s BrightPoint.) One example: A Fortune 100 company came to Flashpoint after seeing massive spikes in its fraud losses. After some digging, Flashpoint analysts tracked down the hackers responsible, who were boasting about... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
While these general factors might help a company decide in which country to invest its production, of course different factories will have different track records—so it’s important to look at individual audits. But how can a multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
thinker as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
so fluid that all desks have wheels to allow free movement between "cabals" (teams) on a regular basis (which happens frequently enough that Valve created a homegrown tracking app to allow peers to find each other), a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
strong validation of our client franchise and future prospects." For his part, Buffett called Goldman "an exceptional institution" with " an unrivaled global franchise, a proven and deep management team, and the intellectual and financial capital to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
agreements. Set in early 2007, nearly two years after significant modifications in these systems and procedures. Stryker has compiled a remarkable track record of consistently high growth in profitability over more than 20 years. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace