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16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

in a unified European market with the introduction of the Euro. This new landscape offers new business opportunities and possibilities to write cases that show very multicultural environments fairly unique... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

& Poor's. European policymakers, in contrast, have sought to create new rules for the international system and empower international organizations, such as the EU, OECD, and IMF, to enforce them. French policymakers invented the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

by: Adopting new routines and rituals. The foundation of CEOs’ self-care was to replace the “lost structure” of the workday. One shared that “a daily routine for myself and supporting the family took longer to create and to put in place... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

commoditized. As consumers, we see this in the ever-decreasing retail selling price of flat panel TVs. The screen sizes get bigger, the resolution moves from HD to Ultra HD to 4K, and the prices keep dropping. This happens in spite of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer effects. We illustrate this idea in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

At last year's Grammy Awards, singer Pharrell Williams wore such an outlandish hat—a cross between Smokey the Bear's forest-brown lid and The Sorting Hat at Gryffindor—that it quickly received its own Twitter account. Then some marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

more as we move into the fall. In the meantime, chances are we can expect a significant amount of market volatility. So what do we do now? For starters, I believe that the federal government must focus on entitlement reform, new revenues,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires public companies to conduct annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation—so-called say on pay; grants... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

24 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

markets, these are the kinds of concerns you should think about when setting payment terms and dealing directly with suppliers. One tool to deter fraud: pay later. Edelman's new research on a major advertising affiliate network... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
Case

Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein

Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Industry; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business And Government; Business And Public Policy; Business And Society; Media Businesses; Media Content; Media Slant; Media Regulation; Internet Of Everything; Government Policy; Politics; Political Campaigns; Political Strategy; Political Turmoil; Government; Government Regulation; Security; International Business; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; War; Social Media; Public Administration Industry; United States; Russia

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03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

invasive surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for cancer, for example) with drugs that can palliate and perhaps cure genetically-linked diseases. But like most new technologies, these are hugely expensive to develop, and initially, to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

International Monetary Fund, is currently in the midst of an uncomfortable debate on governance reform, galvanized by a number of high-level internal reports including one from the IMF's own evaluation office, and another from a panel of eminent persons (IMF 2008;... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

cooperative problem solving. Parties conducting internal negotiations within well-run companies are likely to improvise in this manner. If you've successfully negotiated a new job assignment after a promotion, you've probably used a... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details