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- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal...
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- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
Alvarez moderated a panel that offered solutions from the perspective of the alumni business community and industries addressing climate change on the ground.) Part of a global series of events produced by the HBS Business & Environment View Details
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Agriculture
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growth. Regional industry growth also increases with the strength of related clusters in the region and with the strength of similar clusters in adjacent regions. We also find evidence of the complementarity between employment and innovation performance in regional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
initial thinking, affordability of health care insurance proved to be the major driver of consumer thinking across all four segments and later became the consistent core of AccessHealth's message strategy," Quelch notes. All of these...
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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
treated with unproductive therapies while more easily uncovering therapeutic signals. However, such research initiatives alone will not deliver new medicines to patients in the absence of strong incentives to bring new products to market....
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Second, despite an initial flurry of protectionism and inward-looking politics, it will become clear that the best way to lessen the severity of worldwide recessions is to increase the volume of interdependent trade among nations. Which...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunities? The most successful entrepreneurs I interviewed demonstrated that the key is to focus on finding customer problems first, and only then on searching for solutions that can help. “The real dividing line is simple,” explained...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
understandable, generalizable, and robust. The consulting leaders sustained their thought-leadership positions by creating an ecosystem with senior executives at pioneer corporations and academic/thought leaders. The paper also describes how other consulting companies...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
can help companies strategize. Ideally, an advertiser that seeks acquiring customers should entertain initially to capture attention, but also introduce the brand early on, and follow up with a moderate...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
The Europe Research Center (ERC) is the newest of Harvard Business School's Global Initiative research centers, having opened its doors in July 2002. With the political and economic currents now affecting relations between the United...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members. Akin to having a personal board of directors, HBS Alumni Forums...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often conflicting forces shaping the emerging competitive environment. The globalization of markets, the increasing homogeneity of customer needs worldwide, the impact of the digital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
sustainability performance and how its sustainability initiatives were contributing to its financial performance. The narrative of this call was very similar to the narrative of the company's first "integrated report," which was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
work and obtain feedback from three coaches. Each team specified areas for which they wanted advice—such as their understanding of the customer problem, their experimentations validating key business assumptions, whether they had...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The...
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Garry Emmons