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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using traditional approaches to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
didn’t need to be chasing more income. He built a business on the belief that the term “investment management” was an oxymoron, that an unmanaged portfolio of every stock weighted to reflect the performance of an entire market would...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
unchanged. We find that CLV availability resulted in a significant shift in attention towards the more profitable client segments (the weight of the top segment in the portfolio of customers increases from 26% to 34%), but we do not find...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
than taxing them more heavily. Similarly, the weight of the empirical evidence is that foreign activity is a complement, rather than a substitute, for domestic activity. Much as the formulation of trade policy requires resisting the...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
fails to show how to create a governance system that supports organizational effectiveness. We propose a framework that gives equal weight to creating a governance system whose effectiveness is measured by the achievement of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
beta mode and back. He put the integrity of the institution above his own CEO ego. Executives are not baboons. But sometimes they act like 800-pound gorillas, throwing their weight around. And sometimes they stumble and get crushed under...
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- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
weight of published management advice, recommends that management teams engage task conflict but avoid relationship conflict. Implicit in this advice is the premise that it is indeed possible to separate the task and relationship aspects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
operating cable systems, the sample companies' weighted average pretax income was only 3.1 percent of revenues. 19 This low profit margin reflected the interest expense associated with an average debt-to-equity ratio for the sample...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
market consists of two customer segments with different preferences and is characterized by positive network effects. The commercial firm makes product and pricing decisions to maximize its profit. The open source developers make product decisions to maximize the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
weighting system where each opportunity can be rated against the factors discussed in this article. Nonconsumers exist in every market. When the highest-potential opportunity has been identified, build a preliminary business case for it....
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
comprehensive criterion of fair taxation proposed by John Stuart Mill and associated with the Libertarian normative framework-is given some weight in the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
follow through? In a series of studies, Toffel and several colleagues have strived to answer these questions—which carry enormous weight for companies doing business overseas. Get them wrong and brands risk doing business with suppliers...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
devoted to underlying theories or principles, since in business "practices and precedents have no weight of authority." The particulars of each business situation were paramount; they had to be understood and analyzed in detail....
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by David A. Garvin
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
also find evidence that the behavior of lower-level managers is consistent with the incentives created by the weighting of nonfinancial performance measures in promotion decisions. Managers in locations where there is a higher ex ante...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
what we say ‘yes’ to are things we can control." “I am really walking the talk in terms of my research right now,” she says. “The weight of what’s going on underscores what really matters. We should be mindful about how we spend our...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
this framework for the time path of U.S. policy require central parameters of the model, namely the elasticity of taxable income or the marginal social welfare weights on top earners, to take unconventional values. We use inferred social...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
outcomes). The results demonstrate two separate advantages to an early warning that go beyond the warning's mere informational content. When an early warning coincides with the beginning of a decision-making process, the warning is both View Details
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Martha Lagace