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- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia had turned its sights toward joining the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
need to determine which of the lessons learned from Haier's international operations should be implemented in China and which skills learned at home could best be applied abroad. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
developing its first project, a new city called PlanIT Valley, outside of Porto, Portugal. The company has clarified its vision and is moving into the implementation phase, which involves fundraising, signing up channel partners, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
strengthened by a fascination with ideology—that is, the framework of beliefs and ideas that a community uses to define and implement values, having to do, for example, with rights and duties of membership in the community, the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
As one informant told me, some of the "Baxter Boys" hired each other, enabling them to "speak the same language," which made the implementation of design choices that reflect Baxter's career imprint much easier.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
specifics are determined lower down in the organization. Even if you get the plan right, implementing it is a whole other project. Some of Clark's research in the book deals with the extent to which the operating organization also has to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
reality is driven by a fundamental failure in consumer inferences when sellers withhold information. Using a series of laboratory experiments, we implement a simple disclosure game in which senders can verifiably report quality to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the challenges of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications, quality standards are commonly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
wasn't the issue—the division still had the superior technology overall. Nor was talent a problem—Becton Dickinson continued to retain the skilled engineers that had made it the leader in its field. The organization's design didn't seem to be the problem, either—the... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
these were German firms, interpreters would quickly claim that these represented a particular German tendency to bureaucracy. Prior to 1945, many German firms actually resisted the expense and burden of implementing these innovations in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist them in developing and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made opportunistic earnings management more challenging. Our evidence highlights a novel channel through which uncertainty affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
technology was used illegally on 70-80 percent of the soybean area in southern Brazil. Under pressure from U.S. soybean growers, who were paying to license the technology, the firm implemented an innovative delivery-based collection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second largest player in the market, AFM, Çavuşoğlu focused on institutionalizing and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that makes possible the successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
sustainability. For example, the CEO of Ujjivan, Samit Ghosh, decides to strengthen the Audit Team and implements new loan products. Purchase this supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
"dashboard," and the Performance Manager. Provides students with an opportunity to identify key design principles for health care information systems, and to discuss the unique implementation challenges that the health care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace