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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
app-based ride-hailing, shopping, and food-delivery platforms working more hours to compensate for pandemic-related job losses within their households. As this trend accelerated, Oberholzer-Gee and Katsnelson looked for an opportunity to better understand how workers...
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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
diversification of assets, managed through a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETF’s) that track market indexes. “It’s a great way to invest cheaply in a diversified basket of stocks, bonds, and other securities,” says Viceira. If anything, Wealthfront’s offering is...
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- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
unfamiliar with standard research rules. It took nearly four years to design the health care worker recruitment experiment, Ashraf notes. "It's challenging to balance the rigor of science and objectivity with the participation of the...
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- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
government can work together to create jobs.” "We've made a lot of progress on the macroeconomic front: deficit reduction, balancing the budget, what the Fed is doing, and tax policy reform," says Mills. "But that doesn't...
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- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Act is an interesting piece of legislation," said Reinhardt. "The federal government has to do everything it can to reduce the probability of extinction. It's explicitly prohibited in the statute from balancing costs and...
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- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
students attending such programs or to the firms hiring their graduates. This raises other interesting questions. To what extent is today's business school contributing to the deprofessionalization of management? Should it foster greater View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
also issued a ruling against Canadian practices, the balance of its judgment was that the Brazilian government had been doing a great deal more to subsidize Embraer indirectly. Still, one lesson is that shining a spotlight on the...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
They do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. At a time when the temptation before some managers is orders of magnitude greater than twenty or thirty years ago, the concern is that the external checks and View Details
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by Harvard Management Update
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
service. What kinds of resistance have these companies experienced? Has the resistance surprised you? A: Like many recent newborn companies, the ones we have studied have made bold claims such as: "Let's change the balance of power...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
existing customers drop, but also there is a significant cost increase due to attracting new customers. Once these new customers come in, however, the lower service will only serve to drive them away." As for information technology, companies need to be able to...
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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
examples of how, by practicing judo principles of movement (not inviting attack, defining the competitive space, and following through fast); balance (gripping your opponent, avoiding tit-for-tat, and pushing when pulled); and leverage...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
design—reflecting a lack of understanding of the entrepreneurial process—and problematic implementation. Government must play a careful balancing act, combining an understanding of the necessity of playing a catalytic role with an...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
members of two Turkish business families. The existing management, while being highly entrepreneurial, had paid less attention to managing the company in a professional manner, leading to a highly leveraged balance sheet and a significant...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
of principles of trade between countries. A: The title of the paper refers to the idea that, in choosing the optimal maturity structure of its debt, the government balances the costs of rollover risk (in the extreme case, the government...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and balanced scorecards to help each division implement its strategies....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
require a healthy balance between the forces of vision and motivating passion and those of process, structure, and efficient systems. Howard Schultz I think there are also lessons for established businesses in Brand New in terms of the...
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by Martha Lagace