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- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
been tanking, with shares recently trading at $1.50. And in October, Sears filed for bankruptcy protection, following the dark road paved by Borders, RadioShack, and Toys ‘R’ Us. “Target had to make this big... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business Plan Contest, Bagley gives a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
with concerns about fashion misses, logistics failures, the departure of senior managers, and increased foreign competition. New fast-fashion competition in the form of Inditex, H&M, and Club Monaco threatened Gap's market share both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
filing date rather than at patent grant—on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find that post-AIPA U.S. patent applications are significantly more likely to be licensed before patent grant and shortly after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
productive relationships. However, every year, a few thousand customers file new arbitration cases with Finra, the US brokerage industry’s regulatory organization, alleging everything from negligence to fraud. “Consumers should monitor... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
University professors Suresh Nallareddy and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, analyze data created by tax filings to compare effects on workers at varying compensation levels in different US states with and without tax cuts. The result: Tax... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac, Buick, and Chevrolet—enjoyed a 46... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
PublicationsRaise Your Prices! Authors:Frank V. Cespedes, Elliot Ross, and Benson P. Shapiro Publication:The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Integrated Reports Voluntary Filing Authors:Robert... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
hit. Business offices turned to remote work, and group communication made an enormous shift from largely in-person to online meetings. Zoom use soared, Teams expanded, and Slack held its own. In the midst of the pandemic, Slack filed an... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addresses, it will be much harder for them to grow. They have some options, like making more intensive use of the addresses they already have through address sharing (formally, network address translation, or NAT) or perhaps revisiting... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new filings is sufficiently high, the bankruptcy courts, like... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
filed since 1926, the team found that the percentage of patents that involved government support has risen steadily. While government R&D spending as a percentage of gross domestic product has declined since the mid-1980s, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
of business development. Choices made early on can dramatically affect the options available later. A firm that permits a scientist to present a paper describing an invention to an international audience before filing a patent application... View Details
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
University; and Sorabh Tomar of Southern Methodist University. Investigating the value of diversity US public firms aren’t required to publicly disclose their workforce demographics or policies, but corporations started sharing more data... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required U.S. patent applications to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant—on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
increase in the rate of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by financial institutions, which cover such crimes as checking fraud, commercial loan fraud, and self-dealing. “Overall, the findings suggest that the FBI's reallocation of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
mistake made. Our tests show that previously when there have been serious restatements of financials, those mistakes would lead to a certain number of lawsuits being filed and a certain settlement amount from them. The settlement amount... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
Bankruptcy filings in the United States were expected to soar during this year’s economic recession, induced by COVID-19. Instead, they dropped 27 percent year-over-year through August, driven by an unexpected drop in consumer and small... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne