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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
support for the hypothesis that rising high-frequency turbulence in the sales of large publicly traded U.S. firms over the past three decades has raised their workers' high-frequency wage volatility. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
There is an overall expansion of industrial activity after reform, and highly disaggregated trade data indicate higher exports of new goods. These results suggest that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may be different at different points in time. We find that retail store openings initially cannibalize direct channel sales in the short term if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris
art history major, would rather trade Friday night lights for First Fridays with friends at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Was coming to HBS a joint decision? It wasn’t – Tyler knew much earlier that she... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(New York Times, 2001), while Former President Clinton used his "bully pulpit" to urge corporations to attend to social problems (New York Times, 1996) and later advocated that minimum labor standards be a part of international... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
million. CHI Inc. is now part of Enel Green Power, part of Enel, the world's largest publicly traded electric utility. There were positive IRR investments in the consumer goods... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center “was a learning experience I... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Publications 2006 Henry Holt (Macmillan) Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
governments that caused their misery in the first place. In such mismanaged countries—which number close to seventy—a way must be found to change the basic system. Globalization—seen by many today as a sort of cure-all—will certainly not... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
periods of one to three months, locking investors into their long positions. Theory predicts that the greater the restrictions, the greater the impact of trading on price.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
through specialized training, such as carpenters, electricians, and pharmacy technicians. In today’s tech-heavy work environments, however, apprenticeships should not be limited to these trade occupations, Fuller argues, noting that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
at the company’s core. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers. The publicly traded company has won numerous honors, including Fast Company’s World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care; MIT... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
"If you're going to have to face the music eventually, why wait?" Pottruck and his team made the tough decision to cannibalize their successful discount brokerage business in favor of Internet View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace