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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
Inflation Reduction Act This bonus episode features the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program’s CleanLaw podcast, where professors Jody Freeman (Harvard) and Greg Dotson (University of Oregon) talk about the US Inflation... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
land, construction, hiring, and so on. Yet overconfidence remains the norm; in a study by Arnold Cooper of Purdue University, Carolyn Woo of Notre Dame University, and William Dunkelberg of Temple University, more than 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
[research] hasn’t included everyone,” says Coffman, the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A 2021 Williams Institute study found that about 1.2 million people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business School Press, 2009 Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Publication: Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (HBS MBA... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Google's tying and bundling tactics are suspect under antitrust law. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2436940 The Cross Section of Expected Holding Period Returns and Their Dynamics: A Present Value Approach By: Lyle, Matthew R., and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
competitiveness of individual firms. Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in 2001. It is led by Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Authors:Michael J. Roberts, Howard H. Stevenson, William A. Sahlman, Paul W. Marshall, and Richard G. Hamermesh, eds. Publication:New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006 Abstract New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, 6th edition, is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
Business Administration at HBS and a member of the Forum's faculty steering committee. Other committee members include William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research at HMS; Richard G. Hamermesh, MBA Class of 1961 View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
handle on what you’re going to do. If you stick with that timeframe, you won’t risk being out of sight and out of mind and can look forward to starting fresh in your new role. John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results." —standard financial disclaimer Neophyte investors—it is believed—play a role in creating asset price bubbles such as the tech collapse a few years ago. Just think back to the seventeenth century Tulip... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
and Rakesh Khurana Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Viceira and Ricardo Gimeno Publication:Spain in the EMU (forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/Europroject_20091112-ALL.pdf What Makes a City Entrepreneurial? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing or decreasing, depending on the magnitude of a manager's career incentives. Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions Authors:David E. Bell and Ralph L. Keeney Publication:In The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order, edited by Steven Brams,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
owners of a corporation, professional managers and directors are their agents, primarily responsible for carrying out their wishes and creating value for them. This idea was further developed in a 1976 article by Michael Jensen and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
before purpose, you get an Enron. Ranjay Gulati, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently identified this quest as a search for “deep purpose.” Gulati considers deep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
former NCR executives became presidents of other concerns, many in the field of automobiles, office machinery, and other mass-production industries. NCR alumni included Charles F. Kettering of General Motors, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers'... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
(Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Recent news coverage of the cosmetic name change... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
multiple). Main focus is to assess this as an entrepreneurial venture. Students do not need to be familiar with REITs. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810102-PDF-ENG Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
period. “The demand for social skills is increasing in every category of the economy,” says Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS. “[But] it’s not... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald