Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (915) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (915) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 13 of 915 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

performance. In this paper, I conduct one of the first evaluations to determine whether a voluntary management program that features an independent verification mechanism is achieving its ultimate objectives. Using a sample of thousands... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

implications of this result for both innovating managers, as well as researchers in the field. We also assess how future work in this area might proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608151 Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative Harvard Business School Case 608-102 When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop computers, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Business School Case 709-025  In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

America’s foremost firms, illustrate alternatives to America’s largely laissez-faire approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51000 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

Rights of first refusal are contract clauses common in such industries as entertainment. In 2001, Paramount Studios and the National Broadcasting Company negotiated the broadcasting rights for the hit show... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

and customers. Tetra Pak focuses its growth on developing nations where it feels there is room for a valuable business, and it attains leading market positions. Shows how the foreign firm must cope with difficult domestic situations where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2009
  • Case

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
The global economy was expected to suffer from negative growth for the full year in 2009, a phenomenon not seen since World War II. While the U.S. subprime mortgage disaster was blamed as the original instigator, it was noted that the "global imbalances" of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution
Related
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

transitional government under Bizimungu (1994-2000) and the first Kagame government (2000-2004) to restore and build the economy. Rwanda: National Economic Transformation provides detailed economic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong Abstract We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Immigration: A Survey Authors:Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr Abstract This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. Particular emphasis is given to the experiences of Northern Europe and Scandinavia. The survey View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives. Data Sources. Primary data include semi-structured interviews with frontline staff and 1732 staff identified operational failures at 20 U.S. hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

  Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

how individuals think about speaking up at work, we first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web