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- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
when making pricing decisions in the US syndicated loans market and mutual fund managers when making asset allocations near the time of an election. 3. Entrepreneurs and inventors influenced by politics Yet... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
marketplace developments have eroded the dominant positions of giant corporations, Chesbrough pointed out, "venture capital has created a second path to market by funding the commercialization View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's Matthew... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries and to accurately assess... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
firms and created its own incubator. This includes a monthly competition where employees can submit business proposals and the winner receives funding and other company resources. The company also hosts an annual competition to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
for public good is viewed with suspicion—in my view for very good reasons." Yet more than three dozen faculty and doctoral students from a variety of institutions gathered January 30 to give the idea serious consideration during the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
funds are tied to indexes that reflect the market more broadly. When you focus just on very large blue chip companies, you are leaving out three big chunks of the market – midsize and smaller companies as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
about what we are actually trying to achieve at a broader level and how the tax system can help us get there. Mihir Desai: I agree completely in the sense that it's a manifestation of our values. More narrowly, it has these three really... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation—prohibition, in fact—for federally funded research into an area of great promise while, at the same time, we have no regulation at all in the field of reproduction.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
economically manage product supply in manufacturing, distribution, and retail environments. Another audience segment is the investment community. Shapiro: Quite often, companies looking for funding compete primarily, if not totally, in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and in animal tests, the compound... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
with the task of fashioning an appropriate fiscal response. Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. With government deficits equaling 10% View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
trying to lead again. They are re-inventing themselves again. These rankings have come as a kind of shock to that system and so they have initiated what is called an “excellence initiative” in which enormous amounts View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
in hospitals. One condition of funding was that she also create a tool to improve the safety climate and encourage senior managers to become more engaged in hospital safety initiatives. “It was not that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
proliferation of accelerators, and continuation of VC investments have made it increasingly possible to start a business, and in some sectors entrepreneurs were able to attract View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne