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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
Old, Something New Traditionally HBS has met prospective students at networking events such as open houses hosted in various locations by HBS alumni clubs as well as on campus by MBA Admissions. The current strategy builds on this...
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Cindy Olnick
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
contribution to employment, I find that labor-intensive firms are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action. Next, I show that labor-intensive firms are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
If a dike or dam has sprung a number of leaks, there are many possible ways to respond. The initial impulse is to assiduously plug one hole after another, hoping that the situation will right itself. Another approach—and often a more sensible one—is to step back, View Details
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1.18 FIELD Global Capstone - MBA
problems. Students are paired with a Global Partner (GP) company with a product or service challenge for students to address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP...
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- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
previous two months began receiving phone calls about internship cancellations. Difficult choices were made all around as organizations and students scrambled to pivot in a landscape that remained uncertain. Yet, for Humana, a Fortune 500...
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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
fundamental fact of life, choices necessarily have to be made about which challenges to address and the best way to tackle them. In this piece, we discuss the distinction between these distinct components of priority setting in health:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries 'intra-industry' vertical FDI and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
One, the university was the only procurer of whole body donations in the state, which negated the risk that the researchers might miss registrants in the selected geography and time frame. Two, Hawaii's remote location helped deter the...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
choice of resisting or leaving, as we will be inevitably be the next victims of the repressive policies we did not confront but ended up supporting by complying." Some offered more highly-textured advice. Saurabh Gautam said,...
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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
http://hbr.org/search/713405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 409-112 Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/409112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-160 Launching...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
rights and are less involved in terms of corporate governance, being particularly underrepresented on boards of directors. Having to carefully manage their own liquidity pushes mutual funds to require stronger redemption rights, suggesting contractual View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
small IT consulting firm, Exeter needs to make careful choices about how it allocates resources to projects, and it is not clear if the firm has the capacity to add all four projects at once. Thus Kutchins and Cullen have to decide which,...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
says John. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.” In another experiment involving a car GPS system, the researchers showed some people a warning about how their...
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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Porter: HBS alumni are in leadership positions all over the world, and they are making critical choices that determine the ultimate success of the US economy. The ability to get this in-depth information from our alumni and to have so...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
translates upstream to a company’s willingness to produce new products.” That could take the form of more diagnostic tests or other complementary technologies that would help monitor procedures—for example, a new device to check the View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
in local markets, to increase bargaining power, capturing patients, restricting choices and services, and when all else fails, taking legal action. This type of competition has resulted in large, undifferentiated health plans and provider...
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