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  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost of the primary product, but decreases the cost of the by-product. A second-order effect of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

prices lower than $5. Researchers then compared companies’ book-to-market values with four alternative valuation ratios they designed: sales-to-price, gross-profit-to-price, net payouts-to-price, and a composite ratio. The researchers found that although these ratios... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Richard W. Beatty (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business Press) Many companies spend too much time and money on low performers while... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)

building effective executive teams, developing and implementing a sound strategy and performance management. Interested in staying up-to-date with news about issues and trends impacting the nonprofit sector... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into football's deleterious health... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • 09 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

number of options John receives has been cut in half. (The exhibit The Impact of Different Option Plans on Compensation" summarizes the effect of stock price changes on the three kinds of plans.) Now let's look at what happens to... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

what employees can do to resist them. As she states in a recent column in Harvard Business Review, "The best cure for horrible bosses is wonderful colleagues." Bad boss behavior #1: failure to communicate. At any level of management, it's important that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, University of Iowa; Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution; Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Examining ways to create View Details
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

residual 48%. The factors most strongly correlated with state fixed effects are the availability of Election Day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting, as well as electoral competitiveness. Education is the only variable... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

Long-term investors? Short-term investors? Transient investors? In addition, how are dispersed shareholders to sort out which nominees deserve their "for" votes? In the case of re-nominations, how is an incumbent's past View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental problems, however, because environmental problems often transcend firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

of Africa’s businesses. Along with CTO Joshua Ihejiamaizu and board member Temi Awogboro, Chow ensures GEN’s programs effectively break young Nigerians out of dead-end, low-skilled work, through its international operations and presence... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
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Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane
In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details
Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan
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Abdelal, Rawi E., and David Lane. "Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-012, April 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
  • February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
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Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO." Harvard Business School Case 821-016, February 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the quality of its clinical performance on cardiovascular patients. We find that, on average, focus has a positive effect on quality performance. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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