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- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
(planting trees where there were no trees previously) all play a role in taking in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But, it can be a challenge to efficiently and accurately measure how much carbon stock is stored in a forest. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the bursting of the high-tech bubble,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
utility vehicles and tractors for the Indian market in the 1950s. Today, it is a $6.6 billion enterprise involved in many activities, including information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and financial services, as well... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained investor meeting records from a mid-cap company traded on the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
between book and tax income, and yet this disparity has been growing. Other factors such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation and differential treatment of overseas income, subsidiary income, and pension... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
part of the HBS experience: students, by the example of their own lives, informing and learning from each other. Mamongae Mahlare Mahlare at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Some trailblazers smash down barricades; others, like... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
marketing project. Kash Rangan had a strong interest in supply/demand chains, and thought the project presented some interesting opportunities. John Sviokla, with a powerful background in management information systems, joined the team.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Capital Regulation By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
fluid along the surface at our site, which requires just a relatively small primary pump. SWAC is our only source of cooling — we have no conventional backup.” The SWAC system cost about $8 million, compared with a more conventional system’s $1.5 million View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
stock prices had been reached. Despite Fisher's poor prediction on that occasion, he played a neglected, but significant role in the growth of the forecasting industry and in the rise of a class of early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Historical Research - India
the modules of the World Newspaper Archive, providing more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia dating from the 19th century. Content includes titles published in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in English, Gujarati and Bengali.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
at the networks of interlocking boards of directors of major joint stock companies in Brazil and Mexico in 1909. We test whether in Mexico businessmen relied more on networks and other informal arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, free services are often high... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
creation plans.” What is your favorite HBS case and why? Pradhan: “I don’t know if it is my favorite, but a case that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was “Europe, Russia and the Age of Gas Revolution.” I’d always thought about natural gas View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
predictions for the impact of weak investor protection on MNC activity and FDI flows are tested and confirmed using firm-level data. The Influence of Ownership on Accounting Information Expenditures Authors:Leslie Eldenburg and Ranjani... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20buell%20reich%20norton_3e675fb6-f83c-47fc-912d-e0c0b383e56d.pdf Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
new ones. The authors contend that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they'll pay premium View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne