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- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
support podcasts, webinars, and a black box room for video recording. See press release 10th Anniversary The Global Financial Crisis Conference brought together 300 policy makers, investors, academics, and influencers to dissect the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Our analysis also highlights how digital data can be used to better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
agendas, whose strategies to build viable business models proved crucially dependent on two exogenous factors: the prices of alternative conventional fuels and public policy. Supportive public policies in various geographies facilitated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
across disasters, rather than focusing on one disaster at a time, insurance-based policy reform may remain exceedingly difficult to achieve. Cases & Course MaterialsBlue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound, fact-based View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
results across various studies. The findings are discussed with regard to the boundary conditions and potential underlying processes of the UTE. Working PapersThe Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said, "Nations talk. Cities act." D: Demand Management. Many policy suggestions include blanket restrictions on activity (let's have mileage caps) or pure supply-oriented interventions... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
all states, have decreased very modestly between 1990 and 2005, and cannot be attributed to broad differences in access to physical or human capital. Open Innovation and Firm Boundaries: Task Decomposition, Knowledge Distribution and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542242 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 215-037 Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance and is under pressure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
distribute them and local retailers to print their names on them at no cost. James C. Ayer, involved in the pharmaceutical industry, reaped enormous publicity benefits from the distribution of yearly... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
competitiveness. To the contrary, that's an indicator that we have to choose between being able to sell our products to customers and paying our citizens well. "The ultimate goal of national policy has to be long-term productivity... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
experiments, which involves participants being promised a sum of real money at the outset of the experiment (it could be high, low, or in between), and then answering a set of questions about the broader distribution, such as whether a more or less equal View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding