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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
strategic objectives,” he says. “Selling divorced from the firm’s goals may be good for individual salespeople and their compensation, but it’s not good for the enterprise and its investors.” The value of selling MBA finance courses often...
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by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
perception of the value of such strategies by the analysts. Moreover, we find that firms with higher visibility receive more favorable recommendations for their CSR strategies and that analysts with more experience, broader CSR awareness,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a powerful...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Christian Abstract—This paper reviews implications of recent research on competitiveness and clusters for regions and regional policy. A new framing of competitiveness clarifies the role of regions. Its empirical findings align well with the literature on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
interests align? Kash Rangan: At its core, the private sector has always been about value creation—producing goods and services valued by consumers, generating employment, and delivering profits for...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
“comvoc”), and leave their differentiated personal selves and external group memberships behind. All it took to motivate people, it was thought, was to offer financial incentives, and good results would follow. Well, we know where an over-emphasis on shareholder View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
specific to Lincoln Center's international business development initiatives. MD Anderson Health Care Cost Management Focus: Health Care Value Team: Stephen Schleicher Description: Our project's purpose was to assess the actual cost (vs....
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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
economic impact of digitization, with each chapter identifying a promising new area of research. The Internet is one of the key drivers of growth in digital communication, and the first set of chapters discusses basic supply-and-demand...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
progressed and firms saw less and less return on investment, the value of these labs grew murkier. Read a book excerpt "This was a slow-moving train wreck," Lerner says. "There was a sense that the key innovations developed...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
non-strategic firms. "With nearly 50 percent of sales being driven by overseas sales—and the surrounding population being a big driver of that activity—understanding this is crucial to understanding the View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
error-prone by using employees' subjective time estimates. Also, in the mid-1980s, we failed to fully understand the critical role played by capacity when estimating cost driver rates. The insight about the central role for capacity did...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
strategic priorities. This article explains core links between selling initiatives and basic drivers of enterprise value, and it provides suggestions about how best to communicate strategy to busy people in the field. May 2015 Management...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program...
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by Paul Guttry
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be outer directed. Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more central to its View Details
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Driver for Provider Engagement in Costing Activities and Redesign Initiatives By: Kaplan, Robert S., Nancy McLaughlin, Michael A. Burke, Nisheeta P. Setlur, Douglas R. Niedzwiecki, Alan L. Kaplan,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
is a single-payer system.) In other industries, he says, complexity that doesn’t add value is whittled away through competition. “In health care there’s not a lot of competition that extinguishes bad practice, so bad practice can persist...
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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
remove obstacles for people staying in the workforce, pursing careers that are fulfilling to them? When we examine that, we may find that some of these choices are purely voluntary. Or we may find that there are more complicated drivers...
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