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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
risks that these firms impose on society. Third, creating a receivership process would allow an efficient handling of failed companies. "We really need to insist that no institution is too big to fail," says Moss. "With what I'm... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
getting proximate to the lived experiences of those most impacted by racism, which for many of us, means identifying and collaborating with local champions and nonprofits who can allow us to efficiently and effectively leverage our skills... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
upon to make their organizations more effective, efficient and accountable. I’ve greatly enjoyed working closely with big city chief executives. I’ve learned a ton from their pragmatic and principled leadership and it’s been a privilege... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
between steps. I show that the optimal number of modules (and buffers) increases as the underlying rate of technical change goes up. When the underlying technologies are changing rapidly, it makes sense to sacrifice some degree of flow View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
processes to consumers and beneficiaries to producers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50173 forthcoming Stanford Technology Law Review View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
punishment are correlated. We present three pieces of evidence (across countries, within the U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17309 Pricing and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Constanza Oliveira e Sousa
practical! It forces you to be 100% prepared, to be organized. And you learn from other people’s experiences. You learn that you can disagree—and everyone can feel great about it. Another thing that HBS has taught me is how to be View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
and innovate from. Our efforts thus required an experimental laboratory to discover what will enable us as educators and trainers to efficiently and effectively create leaders. Dean Mark Zupan of the University of Rochester Simon School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
increasing financial control and encouraged organizational changes such as multidisciplinary wards differentiated by patients' lengths of stay. To what extent should he (and can he) reinforce these measures, which have increased View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
perspective; he’s now solving problems that affect the more than twenty countries where CHAI works by adapting the same quantitative modeling techniques used in business logistics to find the most efficient ways for countries to use... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their single-segment peers is higher in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
is still very much alive, where different business ideas are harvested from the whole workforce, incubated and grown under the supervision of very senior executives. Then if successful, these young businesses can be split out into their own entities to make sure that... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
"to encourage creative research for the efficient and equitable growth of domestic and world agribusiness." It includes a cash award to be divided among the recipients. View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
acquiring new resources. However, as the assets become larger and more strategic, management judgment becomes the determining factor. For assets that enhance operating efficiencies or increase revenue, we review techniques such as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
case:http://hbr.org/search/813020-PDF-ENG The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital Lerner, Josh, and Tom NicholasHarvard Business School Note 813-096 Whether the government or markets, or a mixture of both, can provide View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of their day compensating for internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel