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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Alone, broke, and homeless My biggest failure in life was my marriage. My wife filed for divorce, and the judge gave her all the assets and me all the bills. After 23 years of marriage I was alone, broke, and homeless. I needed to... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California gay marriage fame), claims that in September 2008 the U.S. arbitrarily set aside the rights of AIG's shareholders-violating the Fifth Amendment by taking private property without... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
anti-Communist.” When his parents' marriage ended, his university-educated mother was forced to become a seamstress, and Djelic experienced economic deprivation firsthand. But his obvious talents won him admission to elite schools. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Timberland acquired the GoLite brand, including trademarks, but licenses it back to the Boulder company. “GoLite got to cash out on the most valuable part of its business, the brand,” Smith says. “It’s a great marriage between a consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics employed in a range of modern social change campaigns: tobacco control, gun rights expansion, LGBT marriage equality, and acid rain elimination. He also examines recent campaigns that seem to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
tenth of the world’s land surface, a quarter of its population, a third of its economic output, and more than half of global economic growth in the past eight years. For a time it seemed like a marriage made in heaven. The East... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
in expectation. We also show that by offering both CPC and CPA, an ad platform can weakly increase its revenues compared to offering either alternative alone. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-074.pdf Competition and Resource Sensitivity in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
country where many marriages are often still arranged, and it’s a private, family affair,” Balaraj says. “There are 30 to 40 million active Internet users in India who are progressive in their thinking and have the ability to influence... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
activities, specifically hiking and backpacking throughout the Sierra Nevada Mountains.” No surprise – MJ’s focus shifted to her career, HBS, marriage and her family. But in 2003, when she “retired” from paid work, she began visiting... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Flip Klijn Abstract We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
material as an account of recent economic trends.17 The third book would have consolidated and elaborated the splendid passages on the long-term evolution of business. In that form, the book would have been a successful marriage of... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
on your investment, you will want to think hard about your predictions (and see who else is reinvesting this time around). If you still feel you put your X in the correct column, you are still in an Option A situation. A marriage that's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
parts that I like most is when Elizabeth Bennet rejects the wealthy Mr. Darcy’s proclamation of love and marriage because he treated her as an inferior. For the 19th century, Jane Austen takes a truly radical approach to economic and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
2010 in one of the earliest high-profile controversies resulting from the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling. Target had contributed to a super PAC supporting business friendly candidates. As one of the candidate's opposition to same-sex View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible; i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
infamous, in the United Kingdom as first lady from 1997 to 2007. Her marriage to Tony Blair, however, was the result of her own groundbreaking career in law—a career she fought to keep during the 10 years of her husband's tenure as prime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
color), including EverlyWell founder Julia Cheek (MBA 2011), therapist and author Esther Perel, author Eric Reis, Tristan Walker of Walker & Co Brands, and Nina Vaca of Pinnacle Group. In a session focused on the co-founder relationship, Perel dove into the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
to be police officers. “These girls are money,” says the director of a shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan, as she tells a visitor about one of her charges, an 11-year-old girl named Obaida, sold by her father into marriage to support his drug... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
there was a horrible blizzard the weekend of Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and... View Details