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- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to live. Try paying for an apartment, food, transportation, clothes, and medicines on the $20,000 annual salary of a low-wage worker. We have an anodyne myth that everybody who works full-time in this country can somehow make do: The "secret" to their making... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
expectations of profit. The standard usage definition will hark back to the older one: an anchor in a community where a family can live, work, and play. Future generations may wonder why Americans for a brief stint redefined home into an... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
as Facebook and MySpace (and in South Korea, Cyworld), the business viability of these sites remains in question. While many sites are attempting to follow Google and generate revenues from advertising, will advertising be effective? If... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
punch of earlier generations: video sales generally decrease over time across all quantiles of the sales distribution, but this effect is most pronounced among best-selling titles. Our findings have important implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55514 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Innovative cultures are generally depicted as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
analysis. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-026 GM's Capital Allocation Framework In March of 2015, General Motors announced the details of a newly established... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
business environment. General Electric has been able to continually reinvent itself to maintain its contextual relevance—and has done so for over 100 years. Q: What can managers of other businesses learn from your findings? A: While we... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
mutually assured destruction. What America requires is a new security concept that the authors call "strategic independence" to enable keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of leaders capable of acting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
environment in which it exists and develop materials which generate discussion about a variety of issues which, though of critical importance, are often not susceptible to proof. The Leadership and Organizational Behavior course succeeds... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
model for how doctors and their patients decide whether to adopt new medical technology. A key insight of that model Schwartzstein developed is “similarity-based extrapolation”—the notion that people take away more information from data that looks like them. The model... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
automatic transmission of a car or a complex computer chip than what we used even a few years ago. You don’t need a generation of experience anymore; design and production are getting democratized and more accessible through the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
relatively informative about ability but are difficult to influence through managerial effort, may have the unintended consequence of generating inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts. Companies and the Customers Who Hate Them... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
doors. During this time, education as a prerequisite for success in business was more ornamental than practical. Education generally further showcased one's social standing, especially for those attending prestigious institutions.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
and the architecture of the industry in ways that can benefit the innovator by blunting the actions of others who may endeavor to tap into the stream of profit generated by innovation. Even small firms can play important roles. Tools... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' capacity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
General Motors was moving toward its vision of zero emissions and zero accidents by investing in electrified, shared, and autonomous vehicles. And while Wells Fargo was creating fraudulent accounts, Bank of America Merrill Lynch became a... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
idea to write their own cases, and Takeuchi readily agreed. He works with the small teams doing the work. "This allows HBS to make a difference by leaving best practices for future generations to study when disasters hit." An... View Details