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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
this industry. But transferring $10 billion from one legal entity to another does not fit within that broader regulatory entrepreneurship framework. That’s arguably one of the most egregious acts in the history of white-collar crime and makes even Bernie Madoff’s... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
compared to 60% of Americans overall and 53% of senior citizens. Millennials are now the largest group in the U.S. workforce and are essential to recruitment, brand, and consumer strategies. The public opinion shift they are driving has a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
both the relatively short lifespan of shale wells (production, for example, has declined in wells in the Bakken fields in North Dakota by 85 percent in just three years, compared to 20-year terms in more traditional wells) and the... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
use as little as three barrels of water to produce one barrel of beer, compared to seven barrels as the industry average. Seeking financial viability As farming meets big data, there’s even more opportunity for sustainable change. Thanks... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
we’ve greatly improved options and opportunities for our women employees, who tend to have more traditional roles in companies here compared with the United States. All of these ideas — innovative for Japan — have been well received.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
like Mills, stressed the importance of having outside researchers analyze agency data. “You would be surprised at the limited resources we have to analyze the data, compared to the way that the academic community can analyze it for us.”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply an elasticity of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
rediscovering experiences from the past will be curiosity provoking and interesting in the future. In Studies 2 and 3, we find that people are particularly likely to underestimate the pleasure of rediscovering ordinary, mundane experiences View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
comparative product testing in Germany. Product tests, conducted by the Warentest Institute and published in their monthly magazine Test, influence both consumers and producers. With an estimated 5 million readers, Warentest is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics and Finance) Professors Groysberg and Healy discuss the analysts who do equities research and demonstrate how their roles have evolved, what drives their performance, and how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
Finally, they compared the average tenure of applicants hired as exceptions with those hired by the rules. On average, they found that managers made exceptions from the test 20 percent of the time. And there was a stark downward... View Details
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
analytics in shaping the future of education and research. Reflecting these investments, IT operating expenses increased by $16 million, or 14 percent, to $128 million in fiscal 2024. This figure represented 12 percent of the School’s total operating expenses, View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
manager isn’t clear on what or how, try asking them or a colleague what’s been tried before. Or look through internal files or the internet to find templates or examples. Compare the options, pick the one you like best, and then show the... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
the citizens, whether the team was able to find the household, and the length of the conversation. Surprisingly, they found that ethnicity of the teammates compared to the voters had little bearing on how many households they visited.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
credit expansion was offered. The firms raised borrowing by 61 percent once credit was expanded over 12 months compared to the previous year. That’s the equivalent of 35 cents for every dollar of increased debt capacity. On average, firms... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits When I compare our meager list of constituents of the past two years with what it used to be, I feel very blue & downhearted. It seems as if we had reached the pinnacle of our glory, & were now toppling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
Batten’s generosity will enable us to continue the tradition of creating a seamless experience from learning to living.” Presently, Harvard University owns 240 acres of land in Allston, compared with the 215 in Cambridge. “As Allston... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
will have a newfound freedom to experiment with course design. Moon compared the new approach to a rule change in sports. “A change in the rules may not sound like much, but over time it can have a major impact on how the game is played,”... View Details