state fair - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry Authors:Karl A. Muller, III, Edward J. Riedl, and Thorsten... View Details

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

01 Mar 2012
News

Faculty Research Online

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 2018
Supplement

Feeding America (B)

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Resource Allocation; Fairness; Performance Efficiency; United States

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10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

That’s not helpful to companies, consumers, or economies. Related Reading: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership? The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

the preferred testing ground for Phase 1 clinical trials of new drugs, the benefits of massive R&D spending and economic throw-offs are being enjoyed elsewhere, primarily in the United States and in an increasingly competitive Asia.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

Build a Better a Better World (Or at Least a Better Organization)." Edmondson summarized a line of research in which she and colleagues studied communication within several neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

collateral business. For long-term strategy, the company is weighing two options. One, invest in expanding their client base and extending it beyond the sports market, targeting all kinds of community events like fairs and festivals. The... View Details

Portrait Project

Ali Nuger

mentioned any children. Seems I thought then that working and being a mother was impossible. It isn't fair that women have had to choose. I won't choose. I will raise children who believe normal is playing in the kitchen while wearing a... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

President and CEO, Bay Networks, Inc.; Private Investor. Palo Alto, CA. M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. '84; BA '74, Wichita State University. President, Willamette University. Salem, OR. Barbara Shultz Robinson, HRPBA '52; AB '51, Wellesley... View Details

Portrait Project

Megha Mathur

educate their families. These women did, however, believe they deserved fair treatment at work through reasonable wages and access to health care. Seeing the beautiful homes that the women were building through a job that left their... View Details

11 Mar 2008
News

Soak the Rich?

indefensible” and “tawdry.” Not so, contend the big-league investment firms. Their lobbying groups (https://www.investmentcouncil.org/) argue that it is fair to treat the capital gains investors earn the same as capital gains earned by... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 1998
News

Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations

working with students, faculty, and administrators to establish procedures "for preventing these kinds of situations in the future and for addressing violations of our standards in a fair and prompt manner." He noted that the School has... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

March 2013
Case

NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser

The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks... View Details

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01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Bon Mot Enriches the Lingo

Dictionary, words or phrases “used by members of some in-group, having little or imprecise meaning but sounding impressive to outsiders.” While business must take its fair share of the blame for promoting these and other annoyances, we... View Details

Keywords: Webster's; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney patents gin that... View Details

16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

peripheral locations. If the goal of state and local policy makers is to encourage venture capital investment, outperformance of non-local investments suggests that policy makers might want to mitigate costs associated with established... View Details