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- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
the School's Managing the Future of Work Project. Participants will gain an understanding of what lies beneath the headlines and of the various forces that will shape work in years to come. The Market for CEO Talent: Private Equity vs.... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
the employee. Easterbrook denied having had relationships with other employees. The board concluded that he had “demonstrated poor judgment,” but since he had cooperated in its investigation and agreed to issue a public apology, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
of traditional U.S. public companies by more R&D-intensive firms is key to understanding the secular trend in average cash holdings. Over the last 35 years, an increasing share of R&D-intensive firms has entered the stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
standards. Some public intervention is necessary—and that public intervention manifests itself as institutions operate not through a competitive market process, but through a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp
On April 8, 2019, Occidental’s CEO Vicki Hollub made a private offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for $72 in cash and stock. Anadarko's CEO Al Walker said he would consider the offer, yet three days later, on April 11, he signed a merger agreement with Chevron... View Details
Mayfield, E. Scott, Daniel Green, and Benjamin C. Esty. "Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp." Harvard Business School Case 220-087, May 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
providing the public good of health for the general population. That the advocacy system in American jurisprudence or the structure of the healthcare market in the United States (with its convoluted system... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one of the most contentious View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52330 December 2016 International Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
wheels of the company turning while working out of the public gaze to the CEO as a man or woman with a mixture of charm, guile, brilliance, and cruelty who remakes the industry and in some cases society as a whole and in the process... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Investigation Using a Simulated Market Authors:Anita Elberse and Bharat Anand Periodical:Information Economics and Policy (forthcoming). Special issue on "Economics of the Media," edited by Joel Waldfogel. Abstract One of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in the reading room of the New York View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
financial strategy. If the company does not have a distinctive brand or market presence, a focus on identifying an attractive customer segment, such as through Harvard University professor Michael Porter's positioning framework, W. Chan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in terms of the different roles of the public and private sector in financing and delivery of health care services. Overall, the framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Leadership Nancy Koehn Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty William Kirby Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Energy Dustin Tingley Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Field Course: Business of the Arts (also listed under Marketing and... View Details