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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
examine the effect of increased competition on the disciplining effects of reputation. Using a variety of data sources, we find that competition leads to more issuer friendly and less informative ratings. First, the credit ratings issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
consistently, some people will become uncomfortable.” Companies can keep the conversation going through a variety of means: sending pop quizzes, with employees having to pinpoint whether cartoon characters in various workplace situations... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
From Coercion to Excitement Authors:Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider Abstract We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
a friend introduced me to a remarkable red wine. Delving into wine suits my personality—I’m a naturally curious person and enjoy diving into the nitty-gritty of things. Wines offer endless layers of intrigue: from the terroir (soil, climate, topography) to grape View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
produce an infinite variety of possible SmartPak combinations in a cost-effective way and get orders out the door in a timely manner. Our economic model had some great features — customized products, continuity sales, limited working... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors must decide whether EforAll is ready to open its first out-of-state office. Students are asked to consider a variety of factors—including funding, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
around the world today are seeking to promote entrepreneurial and venture capital activity, employing a variety of "stage setting" and direct strategies. These steps are sensible, given the historical record and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. This book assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public health to illustrate how each side can inform and benefit the other. Through contemporary examples from a View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
instructors have gone so far as to copyright their varieties of yoga; others in the yoga community say it is a religious and/or spiritual practice and as such should not be claimed as intellectual property. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
explore ways to empower themselves and more broadly, the Latinx community. This year, we’re hosting ~50 speakers across a variety of industries. The conference is a free and virtual event, so we’re excited to expand our reach! LHM... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
research in a variety of industries, and filled with examples from companies including Cisco Systems, La Farge, Starbucks, Best Buy, and Jones Lang LaSalle, Gulati explores the five levers of resilience: 1) Coordination: connect,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to accommodate such a volume and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
designed to introduce students to a wide variety of choices faced by founders, including whether to quit a big-company job to found a new venture, whether to found with a best friend, how to split the equity within the founding team, how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne