Jealousy Of Trade - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

The role of government in Africa must be to establish an "investor friendly" environment, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, a panelist at the Africa Business Conference's debate on "Government and the Enabling... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

companies had fulltime sustainability officers than in 1995, and between 2003 and 2008, the number doubled again, research shows. (The first CSO with that title in an American publicly traded company is believed to be DuPont's Linda... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

brochures, direct mail, and trade shows as a source of information," he remarked. "We have 60 million unique users a month looking at our coverage of the technology... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

the United States was a highly protected market," declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has tracked the auto industry for decades. "That wasn't because of trade barriers but because gasoline... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

issues. Big accounts drive a disproportionate amount of a company’s revenue (the 80/20 rule), and reliance on large customers has grown. Publicly traded US companies must disclose any customers that account... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

The CEO's key to a successful earnings call with investors? Crystal clear communication. Earnings calls are typically held after the release of quarterly earnings, allowing company executives a chance to brief investors, analysts, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

founders are faced with having to trade off financial gains (from building a valuable venture) versus control. In quantitative analyses of 454 start-ups, I show that there is a significant Rich versus King... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

argue that this compensation information should be treated as a trade secret. Q: How can regulated public disclosure of performance measures generate inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts? A: An... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

all earners and remove private money from our lawmaking process (2) Remove a publicly traded company’s ability to repurchase their own stock, or allow it to continue under a steep tax penalty (3) Invest in educational infrastructure as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

international labor affairs in the U.S. Department of Labor during the administrations of Eisenhower and Kennedy. It was a time when many countries in Africa and Asia were emerging from colonialism. Often... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

and strategy with an emphasis on environmental management, Reinhardt recently shared his expertise with HBS alumni during reunion weekend. His talk, titled "Down to Earth: Applying Basic Business Principles to Environmental Management," is also the title... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

uncertainty regarding the virus itself (when can we expect a vaccine?), and the pandemic has hit countries and regions in very different ways. In the meantime, we are faced with trade disputes, consumers are changing habits, and companies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

There are, however, important structural offsets: oversight and interventions by government and industry overseers, and most importantly, collateral posting. As we know, in the case of contracts traded on... View Details