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  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

claims to have but really doesn't—any more than the mutual funds had expertise in picking dot-com stocks. The banks argue that they have expertise allowing them to pick the better hedge funds in which to invest. And they provide statistical models that supposedly... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

in the U.S. but still largely untested in Europe. While they factored the economics and the risks involved in each of the options, they wondered which would preserve the property's historical heritage and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

  Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and... View Details
Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Kimball Thomas (HBS MBA '11), prompts an evaluation of the pros and cons of each possibility. "Above all else, I hope the case will help students understand the economics and intricacies of the concert business," Elberse says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

direction, resulting in an excessive number of brands and factories organized nationally in a Europe undergoing economic integration, and a virtually autonomous business in the United States. There were barriers to flows of knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

Screen Time

life after HBS, the burden of a Harvard MBA, the biggest mistakes they’ve made with their careers, and the lessons they’ve applied to their lives and work. “We’ve also had several guest speakers, including professor emeritus André Perold, who taught Managerial View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

over and over” Gross, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research, reports his findings in Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production. (Gross will join the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Managing Risks Balancing Innovation and Control Featured Exercises Analyze your organization’s approach to managing common organizational tensions Analyze a job using the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) Identify ways to dial up... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

this approach positively affects a company's bottom line. "In many ways the book is not about communication as much as it is about performance," Groysberg says. "In an economic environment where there is so much uncertainty, the senior... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub” with Annamaria Conti and Christian Peukert. Raffaella Sadun : Awarded the Premio Fondazione de Sanctis for... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan Publication:Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups Abstract Business groups—collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2004), presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association for the book considered to be the most influential text published on the economics of risk management and... View Details
  • March 2024
  • Case

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (A)

By: N. Louis Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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Global Business Course | HBS Online

Rates 6-8 hrs Module 3 Political Order and Disorder Understand the role of government in the modern economy and analyze political risks to business strategy. Highlights Introduction - Ray Mabus Welfare View Details
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia had turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne