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28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

Abstract—The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

An estimated 60 percent of retail gasoline customers return to the same gas station to refuel, without comparison shopping, according to a recent study. Driven by factors such as habit, brand loyalty, switching costs, and search (which... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

internally focused manner. Innovation today must be managed as an open system, with a far greater external focus. Q: Which companies today are the best examples of open innovation, and why? A: IBM, Intel, and Procter & Gamble all View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

1998, was appointed to the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught in the MBA, AMP, and OPM programs, and continues to teach in executive programs at HBS and overseas. His current research focuses on Islamic banking and investment practices, the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

proprietary software portfolios to invest in open source software (OSS) projects that can sometimes seem unrelated to their core business. "This new reality upends the classic rules of strategy," Iansiti says, "and it's changing the way technology View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of customers of any If you're... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

American-born Philip W. Stern (MBA '82) moved to Australia in 1985, spending several years as a McKinsey consultant. He has been Down Under ever since. Now a self-proclaimed Sydney local, Stern is a partner at the management consulting View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Philippe Taieb

Media, Sports & Entertainment, and CPG) on the entire career transition continuum, from self-assesment to salary negotiation. He has also coached participants of Executive Education programs and he has mentored over a dozen teams of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Examiner shares are highest for non-US applicants and in electronics, communications, and computer-related fields. However, most of the variation is explained by firm-specific variables, with the largest patent applicants having high examiner shares. Moreover, a large... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Ink: The Three-Step Startup

For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the View Details

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

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Scott Wu

jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

end." Christoph Vaagt had an interesting view: "If the value of a firm being sold depends on the people who work for it A retention bonus is a sure sign of a bad deal." Others questioned the effectiveness of retention... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

11 Oct 2024
News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

opportunities and challenges and serve as ambassadors to the alumni community. After an executive committee session and welcome reception on September 24, Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and... View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Associate at Nomura Greentech Nomura Greentech Capital Advisors is a global investment banking firm focused on sustainable infrastructure companies and projects. The firm View Details

Profile

Viktor Puzakov

participated in expeditions searching for the remains of soldiers missing in combat from the Great Patriotic War (World War II). “We found forty-one soldiers. But Russians soldiers didn’t have dog tags,” Viktor explains. Instead, they... View Details

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies quality choice in a model where... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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