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- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
to rate each item on a 7-point scale ranging from practical (1) to pleasurable (7). Keinan also asked the shoppers to circle one of two answers for each item: "Because I need it" or "Because I want to have it (although I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar levels of ex ante litigation risk. The lower rate appears to be driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Travel should be directly related to the project. Travel to or from non-project sites is not eligible for grant funding. Please note: Packaged deals for hotel/airfare/car rental are not fundable unless each component of the expense can be identified. For foreign... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details
- 15 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
- July 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
China 'Unbalanced'
By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor
In 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and monetary policy, China had weathered the crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Local Range; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; China
Comin, Diego A., and Richard H.K. Vietor. "China 'Unbalanced'." Harvard Business School Case 711-010, July 2010. (Revised March 2012.)
- Profile
Zihan Lin
speaks to the quality of the students here." "The alumni network is immense," Zi says. "I found my summer internship almost entirely through networked recruiting. You expect people to be busy, but I'd say I got an eighty-percent response View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
the time of writing. Discussion expanded beyond the case to include the current landscape of emissions tracking and the range of regulatory and ratings agencies involved. Students discussed if car manufacturers should be held accountable... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
prime-time mix of wholesome reruns purchased from other networks, as well as a growing number of its own shows, PAX saw its ratings surge last season by 25 percent. Under Sagansky's leadership, the new fall schedule features ten hours of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
magazine in the summer of 2002. Each issue provides brief excerpts of reviews from more than fifty publications and rates books on a one- to five-star system. In addition, the magazine features best books in a particular genre and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Red-zone or “R-zone” for short. Countries fall into the “business R-zone” when: Credit extended to firms rises for three years at a rate that reaches the top 20 percent of past experience. Stock market returns reach the top third of past... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
ratings and selling advertising against those ratings isn’t going to hold up. The whole field will need to find new ways to measure fan engagement with media—and it’s going to create new opportunities for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
Florida. During a board meeting break, George Weathersby, YPO’s recently appointed CEO, ponders this puzzle: Of the 59 YPO networks (including groups devoted to golf, family business, real estate, wine, and environmental action), half are View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doctoral Alumni Take Stage
about career opportunities.” The HBS Doctoral Programs enroll about 25 students each year out of roughly 800 applicants, an acceptance rate of approximately 4 percent. Some 130 students currently are working on doctoral degrees. View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
First National Bank's Golden Opportunity (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208072]. View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the presence of entrepreneurial peers strongly predicts subsequent entrepreneurship rates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
drawing upon authentic communicators. “We encourage our interns to rate us on Glassdoor, good or bad,” says Hung. When the company conducts presentations for potential interns, “we always invite second year students to talk about their... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
better educational foundation. . . . So, unless the literacy rates increase overnight, providing a financial scholarship. . . [won’t override] years of systematic oppression.” Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, was... View Details