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- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
companies differently. It's this notion of building sustainability and resilience into the business model from day one. Morrell: If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out, because it will give you a really good...
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- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
about your consumers, too. I'd like to mention, you know, there was this study done maybe 10 years ago by the Boston Consulting Group. They interviewed about 25,000 women across 20 countries, and their conclusions showed that the female View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
quality and outcomes. Consumers need to have that information to make good decisions.” Jain believes that any health-care system should center on a strong doctor-patient relationship and allow physicians...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
demonstrating the intent to collude. My opinion was that parasitic integration had occurred: The companies made a veiled attempt to skirt the law and create value for themselves, with no apparent concern for the harmful effects of their actions on View Details
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various government ministries at...
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- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
interrupted, and the resultant patchwork of schooling in Holland and Washington, DC, resulted in poor grades and caused him to reject all thoughts of going to college. A stint in the US Army began his personal turnaround. With the help of family and new friends, View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid "silos" they're organized around. In Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilient companies prosper both in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
examine the effect of increased competition on the disciplining effects of reputation. Using a variety of data sources, we find that competition leads to more issuer friendly and less informative ratings. First, the credit ratings issues by the two incumbent agencies...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
making good money in developing markets, but those opportunities are now considerably diminished due to depreciating currencies in the face of high commodity prices, specifically energy prices, which are dollar denominated. Meanwhile,...
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by Jim Aisner
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests. Economists use the term...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control-ownership divergence and syndicate structure is mitigated by the lead arranger's reputation and lending relationship with the borrowing firm as well as by strong shareholder rights and good credit information sharing systems....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
says. When the economy recovers, people tend to move on. “If heads of state could learn from history, then it should be pretty easy for us not to have any wars,” he says. “But wars are rare enough that we’re able to blunder into them again and again.” Lending for the...
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- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
to credit for working families. For many Republicans, the legislation went too far in providing government guarantees. The good news was that the Commission had demonstrated that bipartisan support was possible. The Commission (and the...
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- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer View Details
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by Staff
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
especially Black women, are the most educated segment of the population, and that's according to the US Census. We control some one and a half trillion, with a T, trillion dollars in consumer spending. Studies by American Express show...
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