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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
array of investment opportunities, particularly in industries such as housing, construction, and home improvement. While the post-recession years were very good for Maestro, due to the market’s small size, Enfoca could not escape some of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
civilians' support for the opposition, who failed to protect them. Instead we show that such violence increases parochial forms of solidarity and social engagement within the refugee community. Altogether this suggests that, when civilians can View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
than unemployment. How can we escape the time traps that make us feel this way and keep us from living our best lives? "Time Smart" is your playbook for taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling chores. Author and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
reasoning. But, argues the wise chorus, "from death alone he still cannot escape . . . Limitation is built in to the human condition. You need to bend to higher laws." Limits? Tell that to today's college graduates, more in debt... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined in depth, no serious cross-cutting study of Kissinger’s overall approach has extracted its lessons for today’s negotiators. We have extensively... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
performer in the commercial market, has escaped overbuilding. “The money supply coming into our business is unprecedented, but I don’t see risks that you would associate with a bubble,” adds CBL’s Lebovitz. If there’s one thing that... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
shores of Turtle Island. But for all the rest of us who long to shed the chains of everyday responsibilities, memorable escapes are also within reach. Much of the credit for that belongs to Club Méditerranée, the original purveyor of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
escaped destruction, Hanslope Park held detailed records of which files had been destroyed, and how: for instance, which files had been burned, which had been dumped into the Indian Ocean, and so on. Document documenting the destruction... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than unemployment. How can we View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
learn the seven biggest traps in life and work that catch people unaware; identify the traps that are holding them back; discover their escape routes and climb out of the quicksand; and avoid traps altogether. The Mystical Naturalist: How... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range of approaches—from proxy votes and demands for Board seats,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
much new construction." For his part, Furber characterizes the market as "frothy," which warrants caution but not retreat. "There are always interesting opportunities out there, even in a frothy market." Even retail, the hottest performer in... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
thousands of babies and led to the collapse of several domestic infant formula brands, Beingmate—whose products tested clean—had risen to become a leader among China’s many infant formula brands. But while Beingmate was not implicated in the 2008 scandal, the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and different things this time. For... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
after it delayed the completion of the acquisition. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411004-PDF-ENG The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (E) Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa BartonHarvard Business School Supplement 411-005 Dow completed the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
pressure—people switch what knowledge they listen to and what they are willing to think about. The subtle process of general expertise crowding out customer-specific expertise was part of what had escaped me when I'd been in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
I don't have to explain why. Right? And that's fine. The third thing I would say is seek joy. For me, bubble baths, that's my tip. I take regular bubble baths, so you know, I have a busy life and I'm doing all these things and that's my way. It's one of the only ways I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
on the CEO; you can’t blame it on your fellow directors. You have to look at yourself in the mirror.” Teflon Corporate Boards Ironically, in the reckoning after the most recent financial crisis, boards of directors have largely escaped... View Details