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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. Disclosure of non-financial reports has generated heated debates about whether such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
Bill George, Professor of Management Practice Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972044 Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Publication:The World Bank Economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
for creditworthy working families—not as a special "niche" product for a subset of low-income borrowers, but integrated into the system? How do we ensure that the government-guaranteed secondary market is open on full and equal terms to lenders of all types,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
investors and investment funds. Furthermore, it was creating a network of microfinance banks through a microfinance holding company. However, in a context of rapid change and explosive growth of the microfinance sector, Jacques Attali,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
'soft' with respect to its innovation strategy in order to discourage entry. Even if its innovation strategy is not observable, we show that an incumbent that assesses the commercial potential for a radical innovation favorably may pursue an incremental path and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
form of new capabilities and team-member resilience. We then highlight the critical roles of leadership and of communication and conflict management training as strategies for overcoming the challenges to team effectiveness in NPD, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
was not clear that the business was profitable. Rapid scale had come at a cost. In June 2016, BlackBuck had $5 million in the bank and two months of runway. BlackBuck’s focus had been on raising capital and hiring operational staff to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
through which supply and demand are brought into equilibrium. In the investment-research industry, broker votes perform these functions. Using detailed clinical data from a midsized investment bank for the years 2004 to 2007, we present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We present a model of the yield curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608081 Blogging at BzzAgent Harvard Business School Case 508-102 BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth marketing firm. The founder, Dave Balter, sees blogs as an important way to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517129-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-009 Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank Set in early 2017, this case examines widespread sales misconduct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Stafford Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-060.pdf Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship (revised) Authors:William R.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
communities like leeches. The time is ripe for a new corporate model, driven by a new type of business leader, where creating business value also means creating value for society. Surprisingly, Kanter finds models for these so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
different methods of selecting peers, sampling, different proxies and estimation techniques. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55265 Corporate Legal Structure and Bank Loan Spreads By: Sikochi,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from a 2007 World View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons