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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
nature of accounting standards proposed between 1973 and 2007. Among other results, we find that length of service on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Facebook John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-110 In late 2008, executives at Coca-Cola had to decide what to do with a fan-created page on Facebook that had amassed over one million followers in three months. From a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
India's economic prospects looked bright for a developing country—it had a well-trained government bureaucracy bequeathed by the British, a secure legal system, national railroads, and more advanced industry than, for example, China. Why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
still telling. Monopolists undertake market strategies designed to ensure that they are not supplanted and nonmarket actions geared to avoiding undesirable constraints and reputational damage. Depending on their legal and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Legal Education What Courses Should Law Students Take? Lessons from Harvard's Big Law Survey By: Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
small. One subset of "non-traditional" credit unions have been able to expand as a result of looser field of membership requirements and expanded product and service offerings through the use of corporate credit unions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their own salaries and fund local... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial of View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Interactive Controls: Which, When, and Why? Author:Anette Mikes Abstract Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate a control debacle and its aftermath at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on an insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases but also posing a profound danger... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
scientists, and engineers, Koehn says, the legal and financial expertise quickly follows. Soon, Sand Hill Road, which cuts through Palo Alto and Menlo Park, was lined with eager VC firms. Koehn: That's essential, because you can't make... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Working PapersEconomic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
name was threatened by the intellectual property rights provided by GIs. The case focuses on what should be the legal outcome of the WTO dispute, as well as possible business strategies by Alexandra in the event of an adverse outcome to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
implement a strategy to build out a portfolio of HBX offerings for individual and corporate learners. See press release Wall of Recognition of Service to Country A new installation honors HBS community members, including students in the... View Details