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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
because of aggressive discounting by its chief competitor. Revenue in one of Dreyer's new product lines began to drop. And one of its customers threatened to terminate its long-term distribution contract. “CEOs recognize that they have to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
production and "customization" of materials. The engineering or applied science-based culture of many German firms kept power and authority closer to the factory or subsidiaries. Craft production...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the Internet? How many of us have then received offers for products that we didn't yet know we needed? Organizational transparency today most often is associated with good management practice There is a movement afoot to thwart personal...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
and clinical research. How should IAVI manage tensions between what is necessary to achieve its mission and what is necessary to build new incentive structures that enable key actors to work together effectively? Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and non-native speakers. Although all team members spoke English, different levels of...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more...
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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
highlighting the tension between congressional oversight of the Fed and the Fed's independence from political influence. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710051-PDF-ENG Elkay Plumbing View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment success or failure to the team...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813113-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
strength or weakness of local entrepreneurship in host countries, Huang argued. The institutional quality of an economy, which affects the efficiency of capital allocation and the security of property rights of productive and innovative...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
behavior, and the technology behind the product or service," he says. "How is the technology developed? What changes or threats are on the horizon? What value does your product create for your...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
important general themes: (1) Assessing alternative growth strategies. When should one pursue "more of the same" business vs. offering another product vs. looking for new customers? When is it better to develop an entirely...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
enterprises and their capacity to pursue joint social and financial goals over time. I start by discussing how exposure to diverse organizational contexts and gender affect the founding of social enterprises before presenting the distinct View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth...
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Martha Lagace