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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
knowledge management challenge in professional service firms and how to address it. The note traces the history of knowledge management in professional service firms, examines the current state of practice, and speculates about possible...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
start tapering, it may get out of the quantitative easing business—give new life to the observation that if the Fed catches a cold, the world gets pneumonia. The formal announcement of Janet Yellen's appointment as the Fed's next chair follows on the View Details
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by Jim Aisner
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
self-proclaimed "infrastructure guy," panelist Steve Papa (HBS MBA '99) of Optigrab.com speculated that the future of e-business services will be marked by the same pull toward uniformity that took place in industry consolidations a...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
surprising to the researchers, it didn't seem to matter how much money was made available for the prizes—or even if any money was offered at all. In areas where a gold medal replaced a cash prize, competition was just as fierce and the innovations just as plentiful....
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
has been considerable speculation about Bezos's personal objectives in acquiring the Post. More influence in Washington? A philanthropic interest? Or a friendship with Don Graham? No one really knows. What we do know is that it's an...
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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
performance. It also reveals how, regardless of the success, PepsiCo employees were openly speculating what it would mean for the diversity strategy that Reinemund would be turning the helm of PepsiCo over to Indra Nooyi, a 50-year old...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
speculative grade range (from BB+ to C), meanwhile, has a default rate ranging from 1.07 percent to 29.96 percent. Yet the ratings agencies aren't entirely at fault. "You can blame them a bit for going along with things and for...
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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Japan. "Wireless Internet is a reality in Japan," he said, speculating that broadband, digital content, and semiconductors will all be controlled by Japan by 2005. Vogel commented that finance and retail were also promising new...
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by Hilah Geer
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
risk or speculate on future price trends. In recent decades trading had undergone significant growth. From its roots in agricultural commodities, with trading typically occurring in face-to-face transactions in pits on exchange floors,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
years have been that I have ideas, vague ideas, conjectures, and things like that. And I team up with a guy who’s really good in rigor, mathematics, logic, precision. I have these very strange ideas. They tend to be very vague because I’m a very View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
with as much as a 40 percent increase in committing to recurring donations. Norton speculates that the higher number is due to a desire to conform to the social norms of other contributors—and not be the cause for the charity to deny...
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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
someone who is more precise and rigorous because I tend to be a somewhat vague, speculative thinker.” Secret sauce: “Three of my students have won the Nobel Prize, but when these brilliant young people pass through our program, it’s not...
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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
system of internal checks and balances, Reinhardt told the group. His question: Why did BP decide to do that? What may have been Browne's rationale from a business-strategy point of view? On one hand, it might have tied into the "product differentiation" idea...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
considered novices. We can only speculate with regards to the types of people who might be most susceptible to the effects of competitive arousal. For example, those who are highly emotional, highly competitive, or highly impulsive might...
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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Delphi debt, or to speculate on future Delphi bond prices. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210002-PDF-ENG Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State Harvard Business School Case 709-015 This case describes how...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C.J. Bullock, who promoted Harvard's forecasting service around the world by forming collaborative agreements with John...
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Martha Lagace
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Robert C. "Continuous-Time Portfolio Theory and the Pricing of Contingent Claims." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper (November 1976). Merton, Robert C. "Continuous-Time Speculative Processes," appendix. In Mathematical Topics...
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- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
can't afford to motivate their staff with monetary bonuses. Moreover, a growing body of research indicates that corporate workers are very motivated by nonmonetary incentives, such as positive recognition from their peers. (See, for example, The Most Powerful Workplace...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
predecessor to return to lead the company. There was speculation about how long Lafley would stay and in what direction he would take the company. On June 6th, P&G announced that Lafley had appointed four senior executives to lead the...
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Anna Secino