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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

relationship, greater partner integration is associated with higher costs, but not with higher product quality. Our results shed light on the subtle interplay between formal and relational contracting. They have important implications for practice, with respect to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Student Life | MBA

Student Life An Inside Look at How Student Life Unfolds Activities, Government & Clubs Community People Virtual Campus Tour A Residential Campus HBS is the only top business school in the country with a residential, self-contained campus.... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

industries over others, including wishing to avoid sectors where there was extensive government interference. Oral history can shed light on hypersensitive topics, such as corruption, which are rarely formally documented. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or expansion periods but flattens or inverts during economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The City Solution

International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Government; Government; Government
  • September 1986 (Revised June 1989)
  • Background Note

Managing Rapid Growth

Describes the issues that entrepreneurs and their firms must deal with in attempting to make the transition from entrepreneurial to professional management. The note suggests that the delegation of responsibility and the implementation of formal controls are two key... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Governance Controls; Growth Management; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure
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  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1978 (Revised December 1983)
  • Case

Founding of the European Economic Community

By: Bruce R. Scott and Audrey T. Sproat
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Economy; Europe
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  • December 12, 2024
  • Article

6 Lessons from Companies That Shut Down Their Business in Russia

By: Kalle Heikkinen, William R. Kerr, Mika Malin, Panu Routila and Joel Ryynänen
Increasingly, companies are being pressured to decouple from regions that customers, employees, politicians, advocacy groups, and even leaders deem politically fraught. This can pose a dilemma for executives, as research both shows that fast decision-making is vital,... View Details
Keywords: Public Opinion; Ethics; International Relations; Crisis Management
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with network effects? How can technology be leveraged to build multisided platforms? How can firms create and capture the value from intellectual property assets? What are the... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

encourage employees in an acquired company to "preserve and internally disseminate the knowledge that made the smaller (acquired) company attractive to the larger one." Vladimir Pavelko expressed his support for such a bonus,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 May 2020
  • News

Better Than Cash

Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
  • December 2004 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Simon's Hostile Tender for Taubman (A)

Simon Property Group launched a hostile tender offer for upscale Taubman Centers. This case discusses issues of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) valuation, financial policy, and corporate governance, as Robert Taubman and his company's independent directors must... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Valuation; Investment; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Real Estate Industry
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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation. Frances Frei: Ask us for a better version of ourselves It’s hard to overstate the positive business impact of government that embraces... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Brand China Can Succeed

hardly alone in these behaviors, but its size as the third largest economy in the world now commands attention—and the expectation of better behavior. Not until recently has China's government given serious attention to the country's... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

contacts, and incompatible with the structures of large multinationals. Local Company Politics: A Proposal Authors:Ray Fisman and Eric Werker Periodical:Capitalism and Society 2, no. 1 (March 2007) Abstract Corrupt politicians, and poor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2023
  • Supplement

Nexus Market (B): After the Ultimatum

By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga
This case reveals how the situation with Nexus Market and its Ukrainian and Russian subcontractors was resolved. The conclusion to the story of a Silicon Valley start-up executive facing an ultimatum from a team of Ukrainian subcontractors to cut ties with a separate... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Technology Industry; United States; Ukraine; Russia; Europe
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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would exacerbate inflation, place further strains on the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

internal and external developers of new products. Successful firms devise peculiar organizational configurations to collaborate with external researchers, who act as interpreters of the evolution of technologies and sociocultural models;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace