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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
"Success has always been an American preoccupation, but the definition of success takes on a new urgency today, when every conventional measure of success seems to have a faster burn rate than ever before," say Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
rapid-charging stations capable of recharging a vehicle’s battery in minutes rather than hours—has been a “primary inhibitor” of mass-market adoption. Juan Camargo (MBA 2012), senior manager for value strategy at Cox Automotive—which owns... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
but some probably should not. In making their location decisions, some managers failed to understand hidden costs of offshoring, such as indirect costs of hiring and retention, supervision, and intellectual-property protection. We also... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
United States had no plan for funding its huge debts. It had no stable currency, no sound credit system, no central bank, no reliable securities markets, and almost no corporations. By 1795, Hamilton's policies had corrected all of these deficiencies. The United States... View Details
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consequences. Representative cases include the Mexico Tequila crisis of 1994-95; Populism, banking crises, and exchange rate crises in Argentina; and Uganda and the Washington Consensus. The second module... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled "unorthodox" and "heretical,"... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
fractures in the community could grow. But the co-ops could avoid all of this, as they would first pull the community together, and maybe at a later point spur more individual entrepreneurship. Stepping back, I realized that the co-ops and cows were important in ways... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
co-chair of the School’s Global Energy Seminar; Daniel J. Needleman, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at SEAS and Principal Investigator at the Needleman Lab; and Vicki Sato, who servers both as Professor of Management... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
researchers even found that stereotypes seemed to play a role in the way outside evaluators rated the contributions of each group member after reading transcripts of the conversations. Without knowing the gender of speakers, these... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
still opaque, and banks are more concentrated than ever. Derivatives, though largely ignored, are somewhat more transparent. Rating agencies, with all their blunders, were left untouched. Between the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III, capital... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
Management in Beijing. The Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin recently caught up with McFarlan and asked him to reflect on his experiences in China, and his thoughts about the future of a country he describes as “a fascinating place... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
English and history at Dartmouth; his acceptance to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, working as... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
David Blumenthal, professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Michael Newman, a senior research manager at Harris Interactive; Kinga Zapert, vice president for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls