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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
creates sustained long-term momentum by changing the systems and habits to build organizational confidence. The work of leaders is to build confidence in others, even prior to achieving positive results; the...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial manufacturing sectors, the seven-year-old company must...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
impact the long-term value of a public company. To advance its cause, the Office targeted Home Depot. In an effort to bring about change at the company, the AFL-CIO and AFSCME corresponded with Home Depot executives, staged public...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
concentrated long-term family ownership, few shareholders, and family management. This structure was successful within the historical context of the 1960s but came under attack during the crisis-ridden decades that followed. By tracing...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
company's long-term success. And Job's track record is hit or miss, he says. Take Apple's return to investors. Yoffie says that if you invested a dollar in Apple in 1992, it would be worth $.79 today. The S&P 500 over that same time...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
defaults, and tools that tap our desire to help others-it's possible to design simple, inexpensive programs that encourage good health decisions and long-term behavior change. Publisher's link:
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Anna Secino
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers....
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences Author:Lakshmi Iyer Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others,...
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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
operations. Improvements have mostly occurred at the project and policy levels, where sustained pressure from civil society and some governments has been instrumental in the establishment of social and environmental safeguards, greater...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 Integrated Strategy: Residual Market Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage By: Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—Market imperfections are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
covariance of bond and stock returns. Log bond yields and term premia are quadratic in these state variables, with term premia determined by the nominal-real covariance. The concavity of the yield curve—the level of intermediate-term bond yields relative to the average...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
methodologies such as machine learning. We highlight the importance of distinguishing between which customers are at risk and which should be targeted—as they are not necessarily the same customers. We identify trade-offs between reactive and proactive retention...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
change their companies' values, build healthier relationships with investors, revamp incentive systems to create long-term value, and develop stronger succession plans. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
transformation. In accordance with the shift in strategy, Microsoft needed to come up with a viable go-to-market plan that would align its new commercial strategy with sales, partners, products and services, and customers to drive View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
efficiency and long-term adaptability are inherently incompatible. Organization theorists have conceptualized Abernathy's dilemma as the challenge of balancing exploitation and exploration. Exploitation leverages existing knowledge and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously...
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Martha Lagace