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- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
books that purport to be balanced and coolly analytical raise questions about the company's economic impact. A case in point is Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect, which describes the company as having a "decidedly mixed economic... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
research that culminated in their paper The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy. Kumar and Derdenger studied the handheld video game market between 2001 and 2005, specifically Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
authors John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander see branding issues that are shared by many international entities, but also recognize that NGOs have missions and constituencies that add to the complexity of brand management. They look at twelve in-depth View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
a one-fifth reduction in the likelihood of losing their board seat and in the likelihood of losing other directorships. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsDasher Company Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-065 Adeo Health Science: Turning a Product into a Brand For decades, American parents were warned to avoid introducing potential allergens to their babies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Dominika has experience teaching graduate-level courses, e.g., HBS MBA course Driving Profitable Growth with Prof. Gary Pisano, as well as undergraduate-level courses, e.g., Harvard College course Men, Women, and Work with Prof. Mary Brinton. Dominika also oversaw and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the city an opportunity to rebuild its low-performing public school system. What led you to do this research and teach case studies on this subject? Stacey Childress: I developed and teach an MBA elective... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. In the View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
in common. SB: “We are astonishingly similar. We both came to the US from China for our undergraduate studies and we both started working here after college. Career-wise, both of us were in private equity—thank god we weren’t in the same... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
teach by the case method in new and different modalities. These were huge lifts for our IT and operations teams and for our faculty and students, and we failed fast (and often) many times before we were satisfied. But we also learned a... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
deal with what is in front of us today. Yes, all these other players matter, in some cases a great deal. But not as much as business matters—in the form of both large global corporations and small-scale entrepreneurial enterprises. This... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
describes Socially Responsible Investing, providing a brief history, description of different socially responsible investing approaches, and overview of selected players and institutions involved in the socially responsible investing field. It has been written to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
E. Fibiger : Recipient of a 2023–2024 HBS Required Curriculum (RC) Case Award for “Taiwan, Semiconductors, and a ‘New Cold War’?” (HBS Case 722-035, Revised March 2024) with Patrick Corelli, Hersh Desai, and... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Harvard Business Review Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? By: Garvin, David A. Abstract—The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne