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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
been KPMG Chairman for a matter of days when he learns that the government is preparing to indict the firm on charges of selling illegal tax shelters. Flynn has to decide whether to fight the charges and risk the dissolution of his firm,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
methodologies such as machine learning. We highlight the importance of distinguishing between which customers are at risk and which should be targeted—as they are not necessarily the same customers. We identify trade-offs between reactive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after children. It’s important that we not only... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
part, to the sector’s famous reliance on personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
lowers the risk of infestation, thereby reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. Chemicals that are required are delivered in water that circulates and is recycled. The system also minimizes variation in growing conditions, thus... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
breach leads to feelings of violation and can occur even when employees’ economic contracts are fulfilled. We study the effects of psychological contract breach on three common types of employee participation in budgeting that differ in... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley Course Number 1631 Professor Paul Gompers Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Overview: Entrepreneurship has been shown to be a major driver of economic development in markets like Israel,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
growth, but we still have a very poor understanding of the value implications of these kinds of actions. So there's lots of room for improvement. Q: Are there certain companies excelling in this area, or any industries where ESG investments are particularly valuable?... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Wegrzyn cited (1) "incredible pressure from the economic side," (2) "incredible instability," and (3) a resulting "dog-eat-dog attitude." Dennis Hopwood said, "In the end, it's all about making the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the model are two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
value to those with the resources to defend its ownership, a kind of survival of the fittest philosophy? Yet another school of thought asks whether these issues are overblown. D. R. Elliott commented that "much of the internet economy has the life span of a mayfly... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
society. Applegate, an entrepreneurship expert, broke down the steps that Pivotal Ventures has taken to “bend the curve” with gender equity, including developing an ecosystem model, managing risks and measuring the impact of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55625 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract— In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
dealings with one another. To assign human rights obligations to MNEs and their managers risks undermining this ideal. The paper situates this argument in relation to the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
from the London School of Economics but decided to forsake the predictable routine of law and work as an investment analyst in London and on Wall Street. At HBS, Varma pursued his dream of becoming the business manager of a Formula One... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
School. There was a range of feelings about the fact that out of a class of 700 students there were only 6 African Americans. LAMBERT: We had absolutely no idea of whether Dean Baker would be receptive to even discussing a change with us, or whether we’d be kicked out... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to unplug. Decker Susan Decker (MBA ’86) came straight to HBS from Tufts University, where she majored in economics and computer science. As an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Decker covered Yahoo!, a company she would join as... View Details