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- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance institutions, consistent with IFRS being adopted when governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
firm. In 1994, a crisis in its mutual fund unit nearly destroyed the firm. Provides information about the protagonist's youth, career, family life, aspirations, and motivations. Raises questions about leadership in times of crisis,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
He's sitting pretty! He's sitting pre— ooh! He's sitting—they're going to have a tough time with him. As they turn for home, and it is Always Dreaming in front! Hey, Johnny! Hey, Johnny! Oh my god! They're coming to the line, and the... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. While in the United States the make-up market is twice the size of the skin care market, in China the skin care market is four times the size of the make-up market. The huge Asian skin care market is unique, moreover, because... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Democrats set up more field operations than the Republicans, in some cases significantly more, with the Obama campaign being particularly bold in throwing resources behind its field offices during the last two elections. The strategy wasn't just about numbers of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder, pressing him to give into his... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
correct the underlying weaknesses. When it comes to corporate governance, for too long we have relied on the first approach. It's time to take a deeper look, see where the stressors in the system lie, and commit to structural reforms. In... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
in my DNA from the start, because my mom is from Chile. My father is French. And I was born in the United States. And so right from the get go, I was a little baby, I would be sent off to France, and then we went to Chile many times in my... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
water and fly. It's a very, three-dimensional sport. And it's just fulfilling, and exciting, and full of freedom. In the 2009 time frame, I went on a kite trip. I wanted to go kite the Western corner of Australia. And on that trip,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new, that the View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
comparison to their private counterparts. We do not argue that all SOEs are efficient or that it is optimal to have government ownership of banks and other companies. What we aim to show is that the return of state capitalism is likely to be different this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against litigation. Finally, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details