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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
Editor's Note. Given a veritable flood over the last year of corporate "inversions"—US companies that reincoporate in other countries to take advantage of favorable tax rates and business regulations—lawmakers in Washington D.C.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
than country characteristics in explaining governance ratings variance. Our findings show that firms in emerging economies over recent years had more capability to rise above home-country peer firms in corporate governance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
preference for academic quality. Furthermore, the decay rate of athletics goodwill is significant only for students with lower SAT scores, suggesting that the goodwill created by intercollegiate athletics resides more extensively with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Stephen D. Hassenfeld
Hassenfeld built Hasbro Toys into the fastest-growing, best-managed and most profitable company in the toy industry. Hassenfeld increased profitability from 1979 to 1986 by 85% annually. Only two Fortune 500 companies have achieved such a high View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Interest Rates Author:Luis M. Viceira Publication:International Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Under pressure to break-up IBM, Gerstner instead went against the tide of expectation and kept IBM in one piece. He went on to make IBM more competitive by announcing downsizing and a new vision for the company called network computing/e-business. During the period of... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
says Iyer. "But we found exactly the opposite." When the researchers examined 22 years worth of data on reported crimes in a variety of gender-specific and gender-nonspecific categories they were initially surprised by what they found. After women assumed... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of entrepreneurship are higher in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
depicting workplace interactions. In both situations, emotions were either ignored or acknowledged. Participants consistently rated people who commented about negative emotions as more trustworthy, giving them View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
China "Unbalanced" (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for 711010. View Details
- December 1980 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
International Foodstuffs
By: David E. Bell
Describes three fairly routine instances in which considerations of risk exposure in foreign exchange are necessary. The three are a delayed payment for a grain shipment, a foreign subsidiary facing devaluation of its domestic currency, and a foreign acquisition. The... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk and Uncertainty; International Relations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Money; International Finance; Financial Services Industry
Bell, David E. "International Foodstuffs." Harvard Business School Case 181-049, December 1980. (Revised January 1994.)
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- October 2001
- Exercise
Liability Problems
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This case provides three examples of the recognition and measurement of liabilities. The first focuses on recognizing when employees have rendered services for which future period benefits have been earned, that is, whether unused vacation, sick, and personal days at... View Details
Keywords: Cash; Annuities; Interest Rates; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Problems and Challenges; Value
Kaplan, Robert S. "Liability Problems." Harvard Business School Exercise 102-035, October 2001.
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Brian Kenny: In September of 2013, President Obama sent shock waves through American higher education by announcing plans to create a federal rating system that would allow parents and students to easily compare colleges. He said he would... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
innovations that can be freely adopted by many firms. Firm-level volatility is affected primarily by the Schumpeterian dynamics associated with the development of R&D innovations. On the other hand, the variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by monetary policy” that held interest... View Details