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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
than 40 years of teaching and managing, and illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the reader inside his own head and heart. He View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
protectionist reversals together mean that few companies can afford to remain focused on their domestic markets. Managers responsible for marketing in a multinational or global enterprise must design appropriate marketing programs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
should be noted that the trick to measuring the analysts' optimism is to measure the signed accuracy of the forecasts. To do this, we calculate a forecast error of all analysts' forecasts. For example, for a forecast of one-year-ahead... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
countries side-by-side, exploring them from the 1850s up until the present day, when Chile’s economic strength seems to have surpassed Argentina’s—a reversal of fortune. The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile explores the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
efforts,” notes Hammond, who, in the following conversation, talks about the School’s commitment to antiracism education and research, support for the Black and African American community at HBS, and opportunities to engage the broader... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market and real estate crash in 1989-1992. During his first year in office, Abe introduced three sets of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
were becoming less concentrated than non IT-intensive industries; this situation reversed in the late 1990s. The combination of increased turbulence and concentration, especially among IT-intensive industries, is consistent with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
each splintered into contending factions, a successful stepping stone strategy requires converting enough "persuadable skeptics" on each side to forge a "winning coalition" on behalf of the next nuclear deal. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
non IT-intensive industries after 1995, reversing the previous trend. The combination of increased turbulence and concentration, especially among IT-intensive industries, is consistent with recent theories of hypercompetition as well as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
the Xerox business plans had proposed building document-management systems for mainframe computers rather than for networked personal computers (which were rapidly replacing mainframes at many organizations). With the help of the XTV officials, Shao and Newton led an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this as evidence of investor belief of policy irreversibility, where reforms may reach a stage beyond which future regimes have difficulty reversing those policies. Further analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
middle class.” Consumers Need More Protection Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren is a bankruptcy and commercial law expert and co-author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke. Warren noted... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
One is a very scientific mission and the other is a commercial mission. On the scientific side, our objective is literally to reverse engineer the human neocortex. Figure out how the brain works. That is the core of who we are and why... View Details
- 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. Particularly severe restrictions are associated with returns of over 30 percent, most of which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace