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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
nearly 12 percent that day, a loss of $2 billion in market cap. The poor results were attributed to the aggressive rollout of 144 new "centricity" stores—revamped retail formats featuring a customer-centric operating model View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores. Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
government. The renewables world has significantly changed in the past 5 to 10 years though – our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
considered to be the first formal textbook specifically designed to "teach leadership". Since then, the field of leadership has exploded. A simple Google search of "leadership books" returns more than 84 million hits.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
At the same time, shareholders and some debt holders will suffer losses, since their securities will no longer have value. Second, Congress dramatically reduced the risk of trading financial derivatives by requiring most of them to go... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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1.18 FIELD Global Capstone - MBA
with their assigned Global Partner organization. The agreement is designed to facilitate the educational objectives of the course, by giving the Global Partner reasonable assurances (about confidentiality, for example) that will encourage... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407 forthcoming ACM SIGecom Exchanges Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors By: Kominers, Scott Duke Abstract—This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to their clients, the author has found... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
idea to investors, and by 2014 he had secured the capital necessary to expand Go-Jek rapidly. Almost overnight, Go-Jek overhauled the image of the lowly ojek. Before then price gouging of the uninitiated was rampant, and ojek were... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
very little. The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love (1,591) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6671.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf Published: April 13, 2011 Paper Released: March 2011 Companies increasingly involve customers in the View Details
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
from HBS. "These are women who know that having it all' is part of the superwoman myth," notes Hart, who designed Charting Your Course to help alumnae plan their work and family-life strategies. "It is possible, I believe, to have both... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A government-training program View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
back—relying on a School maxim that is nearly 90 years old. Chao Center construction (Architects of Group Genius) Bricks and Books HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien is the person charged with coordinating the School’s campus plan, a daunting job that involves... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
effect of the P&I sector on yields and to show that P&I demand is in part driven by hedging linked to the regulatory discount curve. When regulators reduce the dependence of the regulatory discount curve on a particular security, P&I demand for the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
designed to measure creativity. Those who cheated were subsequently more creative than noncheaters, even when we accounted for individual differences in their creative ability (Experiment 1). Using random assignment, we confirmed that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Using Internet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
club notes, has touched the lives of more than half a million people in India and has also exported medicines to many other hard-hit countries in Asia and Africa. Dr. Natarajan founded the Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR), which raised more than $15 million and... View Details