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- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
England home-cooking standards exciting again. Armed with his MBA, Duda saw the energy of this burgeoning food scene as an opportunity for new types of food-related businesses, ventures like the Food Network, where, as a consultant, he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
current board members (nearly 10 percent of the directors of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are 70 or older), Stautberg and Chin believe there will be many opportunities for Harvard MBAs to make a difference through board service in the... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
incursions have been reported that the government has had difficulty identifying patterns. That’s because the cybersecurity reporting standard for utilities, he observes, “is worded in a way that nearly every breach falls outside the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
considers the challenge of how an organization, with a standardized service model, can repeatedly delight customers whose expectations grow with every interaction. To explore this question, the case details the design elements of Oberoi's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
living expenses were also an adjustment for us. Our monthly budget in Boston was significantly higher than what it had been in Louisiana, for the same standard of living. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Governance Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
effects on the standard of living of a long-term investor. Investors seeking to finance their long-term spending needs might look at bonds and equities in a very different light. Perhaps the best way to see the relevance of reinvestment... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
Standard of Butte. While entrepreneurs and academics developed the industry, the American government also became deeply involved. Herbert Hoover, in particular, proved to be a big advocate of forecasting. He pushed the Department of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
that shifting equity and credit market conditions play an important role in dictating corporate finance and investment. Of Gods and Small Things: Closing the Gap in Corporate Entrepreneurship Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti Publication: In India 2010. Business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Government in the Global Economy Author:Richard H. K. Vietor Publication:Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract As the world globalizes, countries compete for the markets, technologies, and skills needed to raise their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
borders with minimal restriction and regulation. In fact, two very different visions for financial globalization have been in conflict. The U.S. approach to globalization has been ad hoc, relying on the bilateral influence of the U.S. Treasury and private financial... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
campus in 1971, a campus which today is 115.5 acres. Clean-room standards became stricter. No more putting pizzas on top of diffusion furnaces to keep them warm. But the hair and shoes of people working there were uncovered. The smocks... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
intentionality and conclude with a call for scholars to define normative standards as they pertain to negotiator ethics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53709 Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold and Li model. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne