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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
we conceptualize two key challenges of governance they face: accountability for dual performance objectives and accountability to multiple principal stakeholders. We revisit the potential and limitations of recently introduced legal forms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Info Do Fire Sales Create Externalities? By: Sergey Chernenko & Adi Sunderam DEC 2018 How do cash policies affect stock returns? A mutual fund that uses its cash reserves to accommodate outflows will lower the volatility of its underlying holdings by buffering against... View Details
- July 2017 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Sampark Foundation: Transforming Primary Education in India
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Shweta Bagai
Founders Vineet and Anupama Nayar had rapidly scaled their foundation to reach 3 million primary school children (grades 1 to 3) in two states with math and English programs. Their goal was to reach 10 million children by 2025 and completely spend down the $100 million... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Management; K-12 Education; Frugal Innovation; Government Partnership; Impact; Developing Countries; Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Outcome or Result; India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Shweta Bagai. "Sampark Foundation: Transforming Primary Education in India." Harvard Business School Case 518-006, July 2017. (Revised September 2017.)
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
A better understanding of these deeper relationships is the most important outcome of this work. Q: Your data shows the ethnic composition of U.S. scientists and engineers undergoing a significant transformation, with contributions of... View Details
- 20 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Positive Professional Image
consulting firm. Similarly, female medical students and residents are often mistaken for nurses or orderlies and challenged by patients who do not believe they are legitimate physicians. Q: What is impression management and what are its View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
best locations to capture interest, email addresses, and demographic data. If your potential customers found you through social media tests or googling, you’ve proven they were interested enough to learn more, that your search engine... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure
By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
Segel, Arthur I., Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu, and Elizabeth C. Williamson. "Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure." Harvard Business School Case 211-106, May 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
- Web
Research - Managing the Future of Work
Practice By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, & Alex Martin 10 Jan 2024 Report Healthy Outcomes - How employers' support for employees with caregiving responsibilities can benefit the organization Joseph B. Fuller OCT 2023 Report The... View Details
- April 2002
- Background Note
Local Institutions and Global Strategy
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning
Khanna, Tarun. "Local Institutions and Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-475, April 2002.
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
a potential for improvement. The statistics are disheartening no matter how an entrepreneur defines failure. If failure means liquidating all assets, with investors losing most or all the money they put into the company, then the failure... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- March 2008
- Article
What Have We Learned from Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Failure; Safety
Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" Economic Journal 118, no. 527 (March 2008): 285–310. (Hahn Lecture.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe
By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv. "Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe." WWW for Europe Working Paper Series, No. 14, July 2013. (WIFO, Vienna.)
- October 2013
- Article
The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
By: Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland and Eric Werker
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects... View Details
Keywords: World Bank; Aid Effectiveness; Political Influence; United Nations Security Council; International Finance; Prejudice and Bias; Outcome or Result; Projects; Government and Politics; Power and Influence
Dreher, Axel, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland, and Eric Werker. "The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?" Economic Development and Cultural Change 62, no. 1 (October 2013).
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Market That Wasn't: The Non-Emergence of the Online Grocery Category.
By: C. Navis, G. Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
In this paper, we examine the non-emergence of a potential new market category. In the late 1990s, the entrepreneurial firms that attempted to sell groceries online in the US attracted significant resources, made impressive technological advancements, and generated... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Extensions to our model accommodate the possibilities of multiple voucher purchases and firm price re-optimization. Despite the potential benefits of online discount vouchers to certain firms in certain circumstances, our analysis reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
take on a new growth opportunity that may differ substantially from yourarea of expertise," he notes. For example, another case in the course, "BYD Company, Ltd.," examines the largest Chinese manufacturer of lithium ion batteries and its movement into... View Details
- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
it is this recognition that employee passion can also produce valued work outcomes that can at times create difficulties." Where conflicts arise Indeed, managers in passion-forward organizations may unintentionally emphasize passion in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- April 2011
- Article
Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success
By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
We argue that for a variety of psychological reasons, it is often much harder for leaders and organizations to learn from success than to learn from failure. Success creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Failure; Success; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias
Gino, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011): 68–74.
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Information Technology Information Technology To make the transformation to value-based health care... View Details