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19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

“Allowing owners to have more power and influence in corporate board elections seems to be valuable.” In August 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 14a-11, also known as the shareholder proxy access rule, which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

May 2016
Supplement

2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred

This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details

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19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

very dumb things. And it's always tempting to say, 'Can we just tweak the incentives and hope the problem goes away?' But that can come back and bite us very badly." The Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing is focused on advancing retail operations from a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Training Course in Personnel Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

opportunities for lively social and intellectual exchanges among the students. 1. Fritz J. Roethlisberger, The Elusive Phenomena: An Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

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Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP | Baker Library

1925 through the present. Daily data begin in July 1962. NYSE data are available throughout the entire period; AMEX data start in 1962, and NASDAQ data begin in 1972. The table summarizes the availability of data by date and exchange: Period View Details

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Kresge Way | About

Hall was dedicated in 1953 and was a familiar Harvard Business School landmark and a central gathering place for meals, meetings, and reunions. In keeping with the School’s emphasis on learning beyond the classroom, Kresge was designed to provide an environment where... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Faculty Books

They present six basic characteristics that marketing and democracy share: exchanges of value, consumption of goods and services, choice in all decisions, free flow of information, the engagement of most individuals, and inclusion of as... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

given that they're exchanging what they hope is a boost in demand for sure losses on the logistics side," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe. Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail explores... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

"nanopayments" to all of us who supply valuable information gratis to Facebook and other information exchanges that have expropriated value from both the employed and unemployed of our society. Are productivity increases... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

against and refusing service to WikiLeaks. The attacker and the cause? A crowd (I don't know what else to call it, since it is not an organized group) that calls itself Anonymous and that was spawned by ideas exchanged on an Internet... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

the chain—failures of mobilization—occur when leaders recognize and give adequate priority to a looming problem but fail to respond effectively. When the Securities and Exchange Commission tried to reform the U.S. accounting system—well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

The relationship progresses to the second, or transactional, stage when the two organizations begin to regard each other as partners. As Austin writes, they start to "carry out their resource exchanges through specific activities such as... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

exchanges and influences occurred through many channels—from the Chinese art and antiquities that Americans exported home, the ways in which wealthy traders gave back to their communities, and the archive of records merchants left behind... View Details

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

Robert T. Thakor Abstract—Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

206-046 Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use corporate-value-at-risk to measure and manage a firm's global exposure to risk.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

capitalists in the Valley function as an informal, close-knit guild. Today's employee may be tomorrow's boss; today's competitor, tomorrow's partner or acquisition. If you're an experienced, reputable member of the guild, you're entitled to draw from the common fund of... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

exchange information and generate high quality ideas. A Sub-field No Longer As laboratory researchers, write Bazerman, Valley, Curhan and Moore, they are "sympathetic to the constraints of the laboratory methodology" and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

in the first place: what exactly had caused the brutal financial crisis of 2007-2009? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711104-PDF-ENG China and the Yuan-Dollar Exchange Rate Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School... View Details