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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
successful countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but had since experienced a long period of relative decline. Could Novick’s campaign turn the tide of history? And what policy should Uruguay adopt with regard to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
aid-distortions that steer aid away from achieving economic development in the recipient country. As it turns out, none of these solutions can shield foreign aid from the heavy hand of politics. Developing countries heavily influenced by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
agency, if allowed to fester, is the cancer of leadership, bringing with it a cynicism about others’ efforts to do well and do good that in turn reinforces a sense of impotence in improving the world around us. In the face of today’s many... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
devoted to identifying criteria by which disruptive technologies and their markets can be identified, and making sure that organizations and processes are fine-tuned to turn the tables on upstart competitors who might be doing the same.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
had turned itself into a competitive company in the world market—a hot property that was recently bought by Repsol, the largest energy consortium in Spain. Once they arrive at the final stage of their transformation—a level achieved by... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
simple concept was a runaway success for the students who created it. "They could produce this map for a few cents, sell it in Harvard Square for a few dollars and turn a quick profit. From a financial revenue perspective it was very... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Bower finds far too many companies are managed without leadership development as an objective; as a result, when the time comes to name a new chief executive, those firms turn to outsiders. Both insider and outsider CEOs have strengths... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
discussion about it in comparison with some other alternatives to hierarchy. We then characterize the recent surge of socially engaged models of enterprise and press the case that this turning point warrants reconsideration of the merits... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709050 Relational Investors and Home Depot (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-076 In 2006, amidst shareholder upset over CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation and Home Depot's declining stock price, Relational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
complete, and advertisers can extend this delay both to improve detection of improper partner practices and to punish partners who turn out to be rule-breakers. I capture these relationships in a screening model with delayed payments and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
situation where a smaller number of peers elect to share, and this would end up negatively affecting download speed. We show that this is not the case. It turns out that the behavior of peers is independent of the state of broadband... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Year’s resolution. To turn a fitness aspiration into a habit, experts often recommend that people adopt rigid exercise routines and rituals, scheduling workouts or sleeping in running clothes, for example. But new research suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
say no and turn down the opportunity to make a gift, said Stevenson, who also highlighted the rewards of philanthropy—namely, the satisfaction of “partnering with others to accomplish things that have a positive impact on the world around... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
former, Groysberg argues. "Even the best and the brightest can benefit from a nurturing environment," he says. "You can turn a talented person into a superstar if you combine nature and nurture." That said, he adds, in... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
turn indicate to what degree operating managers can control customer satisfaction. Essentially, we're looking at the entire operating system and drilling down to determine which factors are most important for driving perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
acquisition value destruction, and NAFTA. I'm especially proud of several topics from early on: Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization? (December, 2000), Whither the Information Economy? (September, 2000), and Will Information Technology Really View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
is the blurring of agriculture and pharmaceuticals limited to seeds and plants. Animals are being turned into drug-manufacturing facilities" as well. Thus, Goldberg says, bioengineering may some day lead to animals whose milk, for... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
US. A "commons" fosters the process-oriented innovation that in turn contributes to the vitality of the industrial sector and the health of the economy. Respondents to this month's column were somewhat pessimistic that such... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
manager changes his or her hours, it can upset a delicate balance of work schedules, family commitments, and child care, which in turn can derail increasingly fragile family budgets. In a survey of Wal-Mart employees, for instance,... View Details