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- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded health care, real...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Patrick Chun
engrossed," Patrick says, "with the idea that strategic thinking and business had such a global impact, and where the world is going." Eager to learn more about "how strategy moves," Patrick spent two years with...
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- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
companies had fulltime sustainability officers than in 1995, and between 2003 and 2008, the number doubled again, research shows. (The first CSO with that title in an American publicly traded company is believed to be DuPont's Linda...
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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Abstract—When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for over two centuries. But an...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
marketing function and the C-suite. Reasons for this are varied, but may include CEO and board priorities taken up by other issues or too much delegation of responsibility to the chief marketing officer. When a firm's marketing activities are not supportive of its...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms. Stripping away these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
controls in all three of the American companies we studied. GE's use of strategic planning systems became the model for companies worldwide, as did Procter & Gamble's use of clear policies and practices (the Procter way) and one-page...
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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
time, but somehow the cost of keeping them on board has been justified. The existence of an analyst who provides research on a particular company is attractive on several grounds. The primary source of revenue that is arguably related to the sell-side research is...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number of a firm's employees relative...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
transaction would only prompt larger and more urgent strategic questions. Among them was the appropriate revenue model for Fluidity—whether to grow by providing its technical services to broker-dealers, by going into tokenized securities...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
as a strategic issue," Merton says. "They had been offering unions the choice of a dollar's worth of salary or what they thought was a dollar's worth of benefits. Most unions picked the benefits, which were in fact worth...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
blended identity; thus, limiting the extent to which such organizations can truly "re-direct" future career choices. Strategic Orientations in a Competitive Context: The Role of Strategic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their incentives, but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Building New Connections
opportunities to educate and connect our alumni as lifelong learners. Additionally, having served most recently as the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Financial Planning, Foley worked closely with CFO Richard P. Melnick in advising...
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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
openness to trade, quality, as well as internationalization, and strategic flexibility. Italy’s family capitalism has shown it can evolve and adjust to a changing world. Students will analyze how it has done so even against longstanding...
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