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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
service provider Geek Squad. For the eight years leading up to 2004, Best Buy had reported double-digit revenue growth every year and rarely missed earnings. But on December 13, 2005, Best Buy missed its third-quarter earnings per share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
19th-century photographic formats such as daguerreotypes and tintypes, "Polaroids"—as the revolutionary instant images were later called—emerged directly from the camera as positive, one-of-kind images whose thin, ephemeral layers nonetheless possessed a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
do with engaging, and that’s what excites and delights our members,” she says. After earning her MBA, she worked as an executive in the senior-housing industry, which included oversight of a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a health care... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
about three qualities that are crucial for leaders today: the extent to which you are able to enthuse , enable , and empower others, and how you create an environment in which every individual in your organization can flourish. My former... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
job Let the numbers fall where they may. You may find that people achieving their dreams has no link with gender equality.” For others, “having the best people doing the job” may have been seen as having a subjective quality to it, based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
their goods or the quality of services. The next step in what they referred to as the “progression of economic value” would require engaging consumers experientially, “on an emotional, physical, intellectual, or even spiritual level.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for urban amenities. Finally, we explain how Internet data is being used to improve the quality of city services. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
Tower). Even controlling for factors including perceived quality and location, the researchers found that listings with nonblack hosts earned roughly 12 percent more than those with black hosts for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial reports have strong implications for firms' future returns: a portfolio that shorts "changers" and buys "non-changers" earns up to 188 basis points per month (over 22% per year) in abnormal returns in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
choice but to make the Medtronic culture more performance-oriented if we were going to fulfill our mission. Otherwise, we would lose out to more aggressive competitors and never earn the right to serve those patients. ... the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Profile
Lisa Cousins
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I grew up in a very small town – you could call it “the middle of nowhere” – and have always been a bit of a dreamer, with aspirations to be a leader in the travel industry from a very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
as misguided. “Imagining what will happen to your career in all its dimensions — from job quality to earnings power to wealth creation potential — is more important,” says Senior Associate Dean for External... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest in platform quality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
traditionally earned their biggest margins when rooms were scarce and customers were forced to pay higher rates—such as in Midtown Manhattan on New Year's Eve. And it's good news for travelers who don't have to pay through the roof to get... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
With the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, the newspaper enters a crucial phase in its 136-year history amid disruptive changes in communications, technology, and reader habits. According to HBS professors Bharat Anand and David Collis, both experts in... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
U.S. Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the firm to be more difficult on several dimensions compared to non-STEM workers. Most notably, STEM workers do not acquire a new job as quickly as non-STEM workers;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the quality of its clinical performance on cardiovascular patients. We find that, on average, focus has a positive effect on quality performance. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne