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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
state-owned enterprises and foreign firms as investors, Taikang Insurance was becoming a force in the industry. It not only competed with well-entrenched state-owned rivals, but it was also seen as an entrepreneurial upstart. With the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
closed, Lenovo is preparing for the intense limelight that would come with its sponsorship of the February 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. There, it plans to introduce a Lenovo-branded product line designed from the bottom up for the small to medium View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
at the circumscribed scale, achieving transformative impact. Lastly, quadrant #4, refers to organizations that have both expanded reach and created comprehensive change in the ecosystem to achieve systemic impact. We illustrate our framework with case studies of five... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
sell-side analysts employed at state-owned brokerages issued relatively optimistic earnings forecasts and stock recommendations during these periods. This relative optimism is particularly pronounced in earnings forecasts for larger firms and for state-owned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14
development of the industry, as well as the emergence of new corporate structures for social enterprises and the creation of innovative financial instruments such as the Social Impact Bond. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
policy makers. The skills, know-how, and capabilities underpinning an industrial commons accumulate over time. Both government policies and the investment decisions of private enterprises determine what capabilities are fostered where.... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X1400254X November 2014 Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
challenges from competitors' plans to bundle free virtualization solutions in operating systems. VMware, acquired by data storage giant EMC Corp. in 2003, has delivered top-line growth from 2002 to 2005 that is comparable to the fastest-growing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
prices enhance demand by misleading consumers about true original prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50777 Harvard Business School Case 818-065 The Dalian Wanda Group: Using IT to Become an Asset-Light, Service-Oriented... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Harvard Business Review Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? By: Garvin, David A. Abstract—The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a personnel management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42640 Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become a crucial component of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
argue the authors of Higher Ambition. In fact, as global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts-with their people, their customers, their communities, and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
bearers of bad news is mitigated when recipients are made aware of the benevolence of the messenger’s motives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55611 March 2019 Enterprise & Society Oral History and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52406 January–March 2017 Enterprise & Society Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000 By: Jones, G., and Andrew Spadafora Abstract—Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
pressure, other circumstances, and Grady's level of creativity. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808075 D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise Harvard Business School Case 808-006 In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-021.pdf What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Abstract An abstract is unavailable at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at Zynga, a young, successful online gaming company. A similar data-driven performance measurement system is employed at Dovernet, a Vancouver-based provider of enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel