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- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
unfamiliar with standard research rules. It took nearly four years to design the health care worker recruitment experiment, Ashraf notes. "It's challenging to balance the rigor of science and objectivity with the participation of the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
home-grow them ...." A third group concentrated on why theory has had less impact on results than we might expect, essentially identifying reasons for a gap between theory and results achieved in practice. Several pointed out that since needs can't be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
where there is a lot of market growth and more developers looking for capital.” To do that, project finance experts need to better standardize the metrics of each transaction, increase transparency and thereby reduce risks. “A thousand... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Southern Railroad, Standard Power & Light Corporation, and McKeesport Tin Plate, and as consultant to investment banking firms. Doriot taught Manufacturing for decades. In the early 1940s, however, he suspended his teaching activities to... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these developments, it is time to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Haris Tabakovic, and Jean Tirole Abstract—A key role of standard setting organizations (SSOs) is to aggregate information on relevant intellectual property (IP) claims before deciding on a standard. This article explores the firms’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
firms must wait for the pace of user innovation to slow down and the design space to be "mined out." We also show that innovative user-manufacturers and mass-market firms can share the market for a long time. That's the standard... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice patterns; slow adoption of best practices; and slow diffusion of... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
deficit as an economically meaningless figure is not a new position, the authors say. What is different about their paper is that it shows that this proposition is completely general—it applies to the standard framework for economic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
1938; Larson was member of the Harvard Business School faculty and authored the seminal history of Standard Oil, published in 1955. Yeager's work focuses on women and the political economy and she is the editor of a three-volume history,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
The same DVD would take approximately twenty-five hours to download via a standard DSL/cable line (and 170 hours—or more than seven days—via a 56K modem). Genomics and pharmaceuticals are other research arenas that should benefit from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (CAARTA) by Congress. A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
me some standard interview questions, but then they asked, “what do you hope to learn and work on specifically?” I replied, “I want to source deals, see deal diligence, and work on investment theme development – specifically on enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity