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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
third-party sellers largely carried inventory costs, the Board had made a drastic decision: Jumia would shift from an online retail model to a marketplace model. They also made it very clear that a failure to properly implement this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
criteria. A study by the Conference Board came to the following conclusion: There appears to be little evidence to suggest which of the [various] organizational formats would be best to assure the business's overall success, or even why...
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by Robert Simons
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against Friendly in 2007. While these two activist investors shared similar objectives, they worked...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
First, it would provide for a collective approach to poverty reduction. The WDC board of directors would include about twelve of the world's most admired MNCs. In addition, associated companies could be called on to participate in...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
theatre and coordinate the independent efforts from across the three theatres. Our perspective is a marked departure from the Shared Value framework, in that we embrace the inherent value of corporate philanthropy (theatre 1) on one end...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
special committees can use to level the playing field: for example, contractual commitments from management that allow the board to run the process; pre-signing rather than post-signing market checks; information rights rather than match...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
base of Frequent Independent Travelers. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312092-PDF-ENG China Development Bank Li Jin, Matthew Preble, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 212-001 In May 2011, Chairman Chen...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key opportunity to strategize far into the future, reexamining how his team's efforts in sustainable agricultural sourcing supported Nestlé's position as the world's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Geographic Society (Abridged) David A. Garvin and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 312-120 In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Standards Board (SASB). We find firms voluntarily disclosing more SASB-identified sustainability information have higher stock price informativeness. In contrast, sustainability disclosures not identified as material by SASB are not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such incentive schemes for corporate View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
extraordinarily reactive in his emotions, in his declarations, in the very heavy hammer that he wields across the board on different subjects as they come up, in real time, using social media. This is unprecedented. There is nothing in...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Gambro employees are suspicious of Thiry's authenticity and critical of DaVita's arguably eccentric culture-Thiry is considering whether to impose DaVita's culture on the new arrivals, or just allow Gambro to operate independently for a...
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Martha Lagace