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  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

wine grapes in Argentina and salmon in Chile. Q: What do you see happening in supply chain regulation based on your own research? A: I am looking at a variety of industry self-regulation programs that firms are implementing, often in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an operating profit of just 4-5 percent. A... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics for “How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimates?” (May 2022) with Andrew Baker and David F. Larcker. 2022 Aiyesha Dey : Winner of the 2022... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni

ideas and trends that generated buzz in 2021—and could define 2022 New Wave Tapping the power of tides and waves to help power the planet is an attractive concept, but marine-energy companies have long been held back by issues ranging from the View Details
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

economic spectrum are creating faux management jobs, pointing to wage cases filed by workers at tech and financial services giants. The team found a five-fold increase in manager titles like “directors of first impressions” (aka... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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Events - Business History

relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While state-business ties in Indonesia and China created dangerous dynamics like capital flight, fraud, and financial crisis, Malaysia's... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

1970s, but its governments systematically discouraged wholly owned FDI [foreign direct investment], and restricted it to a low level. During the 1940s and early 1950s only the U.S. dollar was available as a major convertible currency. Elsewhere exchange controls View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
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A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025) - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

not quite, within financial reach of the mass of the consuming public. New credit practices, like the installment plan, helped to bridge the gap. New credit practices were also necessary to accommodate the new employment structures of... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

Institutional Logics By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

learning, can reorient research about the link between identity-group-based diversity and performance. How to Make Finance Work Authors:Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Once a sleepy old boys'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

personal lives, but they often need the help of well-managed social institutions to succeed. Leaders have several structural devices they can use to promote this balance. For example, they can balance financial and symbolic rewards for... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 21 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

profit. I believe that many companies undermine their own strategies. Nobody does it to them. They do it themselves. Their strategies fail from within. Then there is the host of strategy killers in the external environment. These range from so-called industry experts... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Insurance: Regulation and Cross-Subsidies" with Sangmin Oh and Ana-Maria Tenekedijieva. Boris Vallee : Recipient of the Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Financial Studies in 2022. 2021 Malcolm... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

excluded the use of sulfites, while in Europe some use was permitted. For winemakers, distributors and retailers, navigating the complex layers of regulations regarding organic wine was enormously time intensive. Many winemakers chose to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel