Publications

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

investments in an area. Another potential outcome could have been that infrastructure and finance end up being more complementary to each other. This would be in the sense that, while infrastructure is really important, firms would locate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

between institutional and program design features. These findings advance theory and provide new empirical insights on the outcomes of private political activism and suggest key considerations to inform monitoring strategies aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous worlds. In particular, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

multinational and local firms? A: While it's certainly a disheartening outcome on the surface, there are some silver linings. The costs associated with weak institutions are usually hidden—companies that don't go public, financings that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

outcome for users and owners of new technologies. How do SSOs balance these two groups and remain objective? A: One of the major challenges for standard setting bodies is that they must be double-faced. On the one hand, the companies who... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

individual leader has an enormous impact on the type of decision process they employ, as well as the outcomes of that process. However, when leaders establish a climate of openness, and they make constructive conflict a habit in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (B)

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures, the evolution of its business model, and the organizational processes relied upon by Enron's management to drive and monitor the business. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Risk Management; Management Practices and Processes; Success; Business Model; Strategy; Business History; Governance Controls; Innovation and Management; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States

02 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Cassidy Wald Wins Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society

national nonprofit focused on improving the educational experiences and outcomes of neurodiverse youth, and later helped to found a disability affinity group at Bain Consulting. At HBS, she again saw opportunities for cultural and... View Details

19 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Bridges: Remembering the “Why”

without kindness There are two true things about HBS students: we are relentless in our pursuit of quality, and we are well past the arena of individual achievement. We want to make things the very best they can be – the best slide deck, the best idea, the best... View Details

27 Aug 2019
News

A Shot at Success

would become Trey Athletes, a leadership-development program for high-potential high school athletes that Feickert founded with Brian Reynolds, a college classmate who had seen similar outcomes among his high school basketball teammates... View Details

Keywords: April White

October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
Case

Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of "Courting the Poor"

By: Frances X. Frei and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Describes the innovative retail model of the Brazilian firm Magazine Luiza. Magazine Luiza enables low-income consumer credit by applying a flexible and nuanced evaluation system. Additionally, its dedication to customer service, employee motivation, and progressive... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology; Income; Innovation and Management; Success; Customer Focus and Relationships; Credit; Retail Industry; Brazil

October 1999
Case

CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (C): 1997-1999

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor

By 1997 the turnaround of CIBC's troubled investment bank, Wood Gundy, and its integration with corporate banking activities was complete. Marketplace results were encouraging, but scuttled mergers and tumultuous succession issues made the future uncertain. View Details

Keywords: Integration; Investment Banking; Success; Risk and Uncertainty; Management Succession; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Services Industry