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- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
leading bank in the market as of December 31, 2009. (Shortly thereafter, Dexia fell apart in the European debt crisis.) The data showed that so-called structured loans accounted for 20.1 percent of the 52 billion euros in total debt for the municipal sample. View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
similar in both groups. The researchers detail their findings in the paper, "Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery." The key takeaway in the paper: "Career incentives, far from... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
carefully with his public relations guy. He'd have known exactly who was calling and how well he could trust that person. If they'd been unsure about the caller, they might have released similar information to a more trusted outlet at the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
proposed that "the board could tie the CEO's exit package with the grooming of a successor." B.V. Krishnamurthy said that "the ultimate solution may be similar to the job rotation concept of the Japanese companies in their... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who have cashed out of their own companies but serve as business coaches to fledgling enterprises) and wondered if a similar phenomenon were taking place... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
social e-commerce operated there in lower income areas. During that trip, he identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America and the entrepreneurship seed was planted yet again. It was time to leave the “dream job” and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
at Harvard Law School have vetted and written 70-page briefs on. Each of these ideas is meant to be picked up and implemented. We also created a database of participants' inspiration areas and new ideas, so participants with similar... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
and retirees, alumnae, MBA and Executive Education alumni—and across all industries and time zones, further proving the need for lifelong-learning content, whether strictly virtual, in-person, or in some hybrid format still to come. Reunions We’ve applied a View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
By: Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Here's a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," hasn't it implicitly guaranteed similar largesse for all such... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Economic Review 97, no. 1 (March 2007): 242-259 Abstract We investigate the "generalized second-price" auction (GSP), a new mechanism used by search engines to sell online advertising. Although GSP looks similar to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
1.5 Attendance | MBA
weekends, Winter Break, Spring Break, and Club Treks or similar student organized travel. All Club-related travel is unexcused even if it is related to recruiting and a student has available excused recruiting absences. Types of Absences... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
imagine a project of similar scale, scope, import, and diversity of stakeholders, whose goal is so ephemeral - a fleeting celebration of human achievement and brotherhood. "There's no blueprint, and every Games is different, " says... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she says that when she found herself... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
facing similar challenges, and return with a renewed energy and insight. Some of this exchange of ideas happens at twice-daily case discussion groups of six or so people organized according to participant living groups, or “pods,” a space... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
private benefits. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to test this proposition: higher tariffs should lead to more vertical integration; moreover, ownership structures should be more alike across countries with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
order, and promised a free replacement shipment of a similar product. Gisholt and Minard stayed in Florida to enjoy the rest of their family vacation, although Gisholt admits he probably spent more time on the phone that day than he did... View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
96, no. 2 (2009): 249-264 Abstract This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to provide more meaningful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it difficult to sell, prices can only go up. A View Details