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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Street responded by creating commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which are similar to, but more complex than, the mortgage-backed securities long used to bundle and sell packages of residential loans. “Commercial mortgage-backed... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
is similar to those used by many organizations to encourage employees to communicate about operational problems. We find that process-improvement campaigns prompt employees to speak up and that campaigns increase the frequency of voicing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
in general, women are more risk-averse than men. Similar gender differences emerged in response to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002, Pons notes. This latest research also suggests women may be more inclined... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
more frequent basis.” Yelp used to target dirty restaurants In his own work, Luca has applied similar techniques to textual analysis of Yelp reviews to help cities determine which restaurants to inspect. “Right now, cities do random... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate business from fund management. The case discusses the similarities and differences between defined contribution plans in Canada and the United States.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
similar way, write the authors. "There is little dispute that we need a system that is competitive, responsive, and consumer-driven, with clear metrics of value per dollar spent." In the following excerpt, they outline three... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
similar across brands, which makes the buyer less hesitant to purchase them "sight unseen." Purchases of basic products also create fewer "surprises" when the garment arrives. (One industry observer noted that you need... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
their education. The HBS Club of Atlanta wanted to be involved in this story of a phoenix rising from the ashes.” Comer co-leads the program with past club president Tom Mallory (MBA 1990), whose idea for the mentorship program grew out of a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
diversity brings to an organization. In a very simple way, I hope people, no matter who they are, aspiring to a career similar to mine, can see my successes and tell themselves ‘If she can do it, I can do it, too!’ I pursued a tour as a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
jury.) However, for the rest of us, the ruling will do much to define the true legacy of the Enron case. If the appellate court overturns the lower court’s conspiracy conviction, which is possible in light of recent precedent in similar... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
discretion. This is because, when faced with similar applicant pools, managers who exercise more discretion (as measured by their likelihood of overruling job test recommendations) systematically end up with worse hires. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist pressures. Our results show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
with them and help them get 100% every time. This has caused me to think very differently about being a parent. And in a similar way, it's clear that before we started to do this book, that I looked at Christine, my wife, and I decided I... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
generate a control group of non-herbal patents that have similar medicinal purposes as our herbal patents through textual matching. Using this framework, we estimate a triple differences equation and find that herbal patents are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
exercising discretion. Doctors tend to deviate more, and deviations tend to be less detrimental with experience, yet deviations remain harmful even for high levels of experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
enlightening guide, they show how Gates, Grove, and Jobs approached strategy and execution in remarkably similar ways-yet markedly differently from their erstwhile competitors-keeping their focus on five strategic rules. Strategy Rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne