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- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In this...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress....
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of classifieds), and a fixed cost...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic...
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- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
undertaking. The data are all publicly available, and have been for decades; it was just a question of looking at the data in such a way as to test whether the structure of the Executive Board led to systematically biased allocations of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
measuring "innovative beverages" as a key metric. As a result, their efforts were focused on designing complex drinks that ultimately slowed their operations. They subsequently learned that customers valued fast service more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated with exposure to these...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy that actually emerges can be very different. A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are forces that shape strategy in unintended ways. This second point highlights that the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
case:http://hbr.org/search/513058-PDF-ENG Konys, Inc. Lee, Deishin, and Tunay I. TuncaHarvard Business School Case 613-065 This case describes the sourcing policy for a consumer electronics company. The company must decide how to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
avoid approaches that could undermine one another (e.g., economic incentives crowding out intrinsic incentives). Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51300 Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
consistent (by giving a clear direction). The paper analyzes what characteristics make a decision "strategic" and when and how having a strategy creates value, including when a strategy "bet" can create value. It shows how understanding the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
initiatives goes to organizations that are structured to support specific groups of recipients, often with sophisticated solutions. Such organizations rarely reach the broader populations that could be served by simpler alternatives....
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
things have gotten better. Primarily due to the 1986 Act, we have lower rates and larger bases. At the first approximation that's a good thing. That's the one thing that we've learned over the last 100 years about how to design these tax...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
this tool to optimize impact and financial performance going forward. This case was designed to be taught alongside Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation exercise. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC would View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business. Breakthrough innovations that change people's lives and the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy and that fosters meaningful criticism of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal...
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Carmen Nobel