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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

and mitigation efforts. This article discusses the new Harvard Business School Online course, Business and Climate Change, designed to equip participants—whether fulltime students or professionals—with practical tools to understand how companies are addressing climate... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

BP's Macondo: Spill and Response

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo oil spill, noting that BP, its partners and the government all made decisions that helped cause the accident. It then discusses the response to this spill by BP and the... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Metals and Minerals; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Trade; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and Jack Flanagan) as well as fraud... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

new roles for user innovators; user interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice, describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42312 forthcoming Journal of Portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

and healthy innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54851 in press Management Science Procedural Justice and the Risks of Consumer Voting By: Kim, Tami, Leslie John, Todd Rogers, and Michael I. Norton... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to competition. General Electric, for example, was at risk of losing many of its top customers to... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

environments. Reduce the Risk of Failed Financial Judgments Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., and Edward J. Riedl Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008). Abstract When crucial financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

targeted treasuries, had more muted effects. See Marco's other research here , Amir's other research here , and Christopher's other research here Related Themes: Credit Markets, Monetary Policy & Money Markets, Stabilization Policy & View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research

and Invention ; Disruptive Innovation ; Innovation and Management ; Innovation Strategy ; Technological Innovation ; Growth and Development Strategy ; Knowledge Sharing ; Industry Growth ; Monopoly ; Organizational Culture ; Supply Chain Management ; Partners and... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

policies and address risks in ways they may not prefer.” Silverthorne: To help explain these differences, you put forward a model that features “mutual alignment” and “mutual endangerment” as motivating forces. Can you explain? Rithmire:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

challenges, and a family-focused benefits strategy risked alienating some employees. Kent Frederiksen, Vice President of Rewards at LEGO faced tough questions: How could LEGO maintain its culture while addressing these challenges? What... View Details
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

measure investor sentiment or risk neglect and understand its influence on security prices? Do credit market conditions reveal bubbles? How are credit market bubbles different from equity market bubbles? View Details
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

single day, leaving the bank with a $1 billion negative balance, according to a regulatory filing by the company. While financial regulators have announced that the US will guarantee all deposits at SVB, its collapse has spooked customers... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

Risk Authors: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we explore the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

and the concentration of the certification industry. We also analyze the possibility that certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency.  ... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

wages. For companies, that represents a savings of 14 percent in compensation for each employee they can move up into a phony management position, so to speak, Cohen and his co-authors report. And companies apparently believe that misclassifying workers as managers is... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 09 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

overwhelming. Make sure you choose what’s important to you, do your best to prioritize, ask for help, and most importantly, enjoy it. What is your favorite memory of your time at HBS?My fondest memories are the small dinners with my section. Our first year, COVID View Details