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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
freelance consulting projects. Playfully, they sometimes said you could get 80 percent of McKinsey's value for 20 percent of its costs. Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast from Harvard Business School. I'm your host Bill...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
greater, but the average quality will be lower due to the lower expected value of marginal ideas. However, we posit that slack time such as school breaks may be qualitatively different than work time because contiguous blocks may be...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
on patent ownership, the terms of license agreements, or the value added of patents. Publisher's link: http://escueladeadministracion.uc.cl/images/publicaciones/llanespoblete2.pdf August 2013 MIT Sloan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
the company into Arrow to maximize its value if he does the deal. Provides information to permit valuing the acquisition and developing a post-merger integration strategy and plan. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
consolidate as well as rethink their purchasing practices—moving from looking for products to looking for cost-effective solutions that added value and improved patient outcomes. These market forces caused...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
all the involved constituencies, with victims' families first and foremost, Whitehead says. "We will try to meld all those views together into a plan for the memorial site," he explains. "Some of the 25 million square feet of office space must be rebuilt," Whitehead...
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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
was persuasive to investors: In 2018 True Wealth Ventures closed its $19.1 million first fund, and it has now made eight early stage investments. It’s also good business to have women as general partners, says Gompers. In a 2017 working paper, Gompers and Calder-Wang...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
giant and added to his growing expertise in what it takes to “compete for a share of the entertainment hour” — a talent his beloved hometown baseball team, in dire economic straits back in San Francisco, sorely needed. Bye-Bye Giants Top:...
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- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
characterizes the U.S. model of management as focused on immediate outcomes and results and generally accustomed to having its way. But it has an added feature that enables it to remain powerful even as it is transformed. "When it's...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
an added feature that enables it to remain powerful even as it is transformed. “When it’s advantageous,” Quelch explains, “the U.S. system can be very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
borrowing DeWitt’s uniform for Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot, 7-inch circus performer added to the lineup as a pinch hitter. League officials changed the rules to prevent a repeat of the stunt — Gaedel walked on four pitches — but DeWitt’s...
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- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
division were just looking for ways to build a faster pump. They didn’t want innovation; they wanted incremental improvements. And they didn’t really see the value of Local Motors. They weren’t believers. For this to work, Rogers needed...
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- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Church in the Oklahoma conference, which meticulously collected numbers on all aspects of the ministry, including pay, size of churches, and number of baptisms and conversions over a 43-year period. They found a direct correlation between the number of parishioners...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
operations? 2) What might be the intellectual added value of such a perspective? 3) What are the basic elements of behavioral operations research? Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
never work late or on weekends. I’ve found that if you work efficiently during the day, you can “just leave” at 5:30 or 6. These are pretty simple things, but over the years the effect of being home for dinner and to see the kids added...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
18-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 22-year-olds are completely comfortable with the notion that they might work for eight, 10, 12 organizations over the lifetime of their career. They put much greater emphasis on the alignment of the place they work with their own View Details