Filter Results:
(3,209)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,209)
- People (17)
- News (1,053)
- Research (1,672)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (646)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,209)
- People (17)
- News (1,053)
- Research (1,672)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (646)
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
the boundaries of organizations. Though experience and productivity improvement may be seen as key benefits of this trend, little is known about how this shift toward outsourcing influences learning. When producing a unit of output, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
resource allocation within the group. In this way, the results are consistent with models where firm interlocks facilitate coordination across firms and are also consistent with models where relationships affect capital allocation. Front-line Staff Perspectives on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
do.” Never Say Never Van Caldenborgh’s own enjoyment of art began early. “When I was a boy, I bought something that could hang in my room,” he recalls. “When I was first married, I would bring home something that was the right size to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their services. Lack of competition, in turn, inflates the cost and probably also diminishes the... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
auditing and particularly large amounts of consulting services from the same supplier. And now, by means of Section 404, it will: (1 require senior executives to certify that their companies have financial controls that work, and (2 give... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
superficial, like putting lipstick on a bulldog, says Kanter. "You've got something that's big and ugly, and you want to improve its appearance, show the world it's really different." The problem, she said, is that "you are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment, leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages. This establishes a pattern of neglect and desertion that continues for Hajim’s entire... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
the bells were too similar in tone to be sounded together. That some deemed the School's books unwelcome at the university library and that the School was considered an appropriate home for an unwanted bell suggest an initially tenuous... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
could reorder the way a lot of corporations work today. Instead of having 1,000 people in the same office, create localized offices or give people a budget to create an office at home. In doing so, you would significantly improve the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Hi-R-Me: Making Sales Calls This case study focuses on a professional services firm (“Performance Improvement Consulting”) and its sales calls on Hi-R-Me, a potential client. The case is supplemented by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial of View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
unchanged. We find that CLV availability resulted in a significant shift in attention towards the more profitable client segments (the weight of the top segment in the portfolio of customers increases from 26% to 34%), but we do not find evidence of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
nutrition, health, and wellness (NHW) company in the world. Over the next 13 years, the NHW strategy guided strategic decisions and choices at Nestlé including merger and acquisition choices, strategies for improving products, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
recent research: Encourage sick employees to stay home with paid time off Gary Johns, professor of management at Concordia University: Many employees continue to go to work when sick, and a big factor is a lack of paid sick leave.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
growing rapidly in importance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52240 forthcoming Management Science Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By: Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne