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- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
leading investment banker during the bubble. About him Forbes wrote: "...in Quattrone's shop research was expected to serve the bankers' interests. The Internet craze had led analysts at every investment bank to issue glowing reports... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
acknowledged that the difficulties faced in RE are multifarious, recent research has primarily focused on limited factors. This ongoing research project addresses this limitation by integrating the fields of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
company so dedicated to reinventing agriculture to be more sustainable and less polluting use planet-friendly packaging? It wasn’t an oversight. As founder Viraj Puri recalls, when the company was starting out, his team researched... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Robert S., and Mary L. Witkowski Abstract—The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
only thing everybody can agree on is the desirable end result. In the current crisis, the silver lining has been the civil society: the thoughtful public health officials; the incredibly brave health workers, doctors, nurses and compassionate volunteers; and the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads to superior or deficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
A few years later, the Immigration Act would add stringent country-specific quotas that limited the number of immigrants to the US and completely excluded people from Asia. But why do people oppose immigrants so much? What the research... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
For example, the AMA broke off a cause-related marketing agreement with Sunbeam Corporation after its members decided that it was not appropriate to its social mission. This ended up costing the nonprofit association over $10 million in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-058.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRed Lobster David E. Bell and Jason RiisHarvard Business School Case 511-052 Red Lobster, a 40-year-old chain of seafood restaurants, has just completed some market... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the pack through good service, she shared highlights of her View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
factor. For industrial firms, other elements will come into play. LaMure: It varies by firm and industry. For most firms, however, it is probably helpful to consider how their response may help or hinder their competitive position in a View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
this volume of essays come about? What surprised you most in the array of research and insights you were able to assemble from your colleagues? Jones: The origins of the project lay with my current research... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Practitioner’s Guide is targeted at young accounting PhD job seekers looking for teaching and research positions, we thought it contained interesting advice that could help out many job-seekers. We asked Rouen about his job tips in this... View Details