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- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
really like niche products much. Elberse outlines the implications of her research for producers and retailers, and offers strategic advice to both groups. Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Enables readers to analyze the business plan and make recommendations for funding. Rewritten version of earlier supplements. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807051 A Note on Applying Dimensional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
regarding herbal patents. (They explain their findings in the paper Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms.) A win/win situation is one in which the patentee successfully makes... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
with strategy-proofness and stability, and direct attention to some open questions. Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market Authors: Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
and qualitative analysis skills to analyze Hack's current situation, and leveraging critical thinking skills to put forth recommendations. HOW HAS THE SUMMER INFLUENCED YOUR THINKING ON FUTURE INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE? Bukie... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
against rivals? The third level of analysis is the political economy. All the businesses that we study at HBS work in the context of a larger political economy. Consumer finance businesses, in particular, more so than many others, operate... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
for their research, their framework and analysis help to explain current trends in the consulting industry and, crucially, to consider where the industry may be heading in the future, both in terms of threats and opportunities. Listen... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
and analysis operation. Reach out to friends and acquaintances in your networks to better understand available careers. You may have more success with cold messaging people on LinkedIn than you think (h/t to my fellow veteran Logan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
I often just throw out the option of performing a regression analysis on complex PTA decisions just to shut up the opposition. But for the most part, HBS taught me to think for myself, a very handy skill when debating with my six-year-old... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Office examination process. We randomize assignment of novice patent examiners to each process technology and provision of domain-specific expertise. Our analysis of examiner accuracy and speed in patent adjudication reveals, irrespective... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50634 Corporate Purpose and Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
drives auditor lobbying. Broadly, our paper offers the first large-sample descriptive analysis of the role of Big N auditors in the accounting standard-setting process. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545378 Cashing Out:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Carbonell-Nicolau and Diego Comin Publication:Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (forthcoming) Abstract This paper designs and implements an empirical test to discern whether the parties to a contract are able to commit not to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
analysis of the drivers of customer satisfaction and branch network profitability and, based on the results, must decide how to change TD-Canada Trust's branch compensation and performance reporting systems to consistently, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
co-workers. We argue that peers may increase an individual's likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur through two channels: by increasing the likelihood that an individual will perceive entrepreneurial opportunities, and by increasing his or her willingness to pursue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
deficit as an economically meaningless figure is not a new position, the authors say. What is different about their paper is that it shows that this proposition is completely general—it applies to the standard framework for economic View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
common understanding of the structural inequalities that current leaders have failed to address. Just as Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods taught techniques to analyze issues and Policy Design and Delivery offered frameworks to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a CEO alumnus, Aligning the Stars... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 communication from the Commission of the European Communities). But despite these justifications, there has been... View Details