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- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
about state ownership of companies—both in theory and on a practical level for those competing against them around the world. "It's wrong to think of these state-owned enterprises as the dinosaurs of the past," he says. "It's very... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students form groups of five, and throughout the exercise students may buy or sell permits within their group. Trading outcomes dictate permit prices, and at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
a good choice.” Overall, we found that stars did poorly at their new firms. Analyzing the data further revealed that there are gender differences in how well stars do after they jump ship. In fact, the decline in performance was... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
that were bringing financial services and capital to the poor using a business framework rather than a philanthropic one. “That really struck a chord with me,” says Chorengel. “There are going to be multiple firms like IGNIA, and then... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
is really all about ensuring that states and the federal government have the education-employment data systems in place to enable everyone involved—learners, institution leaders, policymakers, and even employers—to be able to make... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
is no stranger to entrepreneurship. In 1991, he created a sports data service that he sold three years later to Data Broadcasting Corp. (DBC), a firm that hired him to set up... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Principles Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Imran Amed Rethinking the Fashion Beat Rethinking the Fashion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
Pundits and investors spoke giddily of the end of national borders, of markets that spanned the globe and replaced the hefty weight of machines and plants with ephemeral bits of information. This may be true. We do have global markets and View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
practitioner psychologists who expertly analyze and manage their own and others' thought processes. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/07/the-new-psychology-of-strategic-leadership/ar/1 Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
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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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject to data availability, we would... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
directly as players, for example, as customers in value-net games or as initiators of policy changes in public interest games. 4. Multilevel games. Many influence games involve multiple interacting levels of government—local, state,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
career services, curriculum development, executive education, alumni relations, and publishing,” says David Lampe, the School’s executive director of Marketing and Communications. The survey, developed and administered with the help of the independent View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
in part due to good timing seem to also do well in subsequent ventures. (By good timing we mean those entrepreneurs who founded a company in a given industry at a time when most new ventures did well: for example, microcomputer-related View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
and provide value to businesses and consumers. For example, 73% of Egypt is unbanked, having no access to financial services. In Mexico, that number is 50.9%. The increasingly pervasive nature of mobile connectivity and access to big data... View Details