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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as... View Details
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
inspected employers experienced a 9.4% decline in injury rates (95% confidence interval = -0.177 to -0.021) and a 26% reduction in injury cost (95% confidence interval = -0.513 to -0.083). We find no evidence that these improvements came at the expense of employment,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down recently, McNerney succeeded in... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
service organization, and comfort with a team-based organization. Aisner: What are some examples of organizations that do all this right? Heskett: Organizations that have benefited from this kind of leadership are those that are recognized repeatedly as “best places to... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
financial goals while simultaneously evolving channels to be in tune with the changing market environment. That's why the role is best performed by that individual or team of individuals who have the responsibility for long-term policy as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered multiple examples of wasteful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
1987), a Restorsea investor and founder of the venture capital firm LMN Ventures. “I had stage fright at first, but it was an amazing experience,” she says of appearing in a packed Aldrich classroom with classmates Sulubha Grant of the... View Details
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
competition.t Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708477 Databank in Africa Harvard Business School Case 708-478 This case tackles issues of regional strategy and strategic institutional arbitrage.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way. We had great traction and a lot of venture capital firms... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
financial crises, and weak intellectual property rights. HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (Harvard Business Press), offer an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19
settings. We find evidence consistent with this proposition for 68 currency and systemic banking crises in 17 countries from 1983 to 2005. We exploit a key publicly disclosed signal of fundamentals that drives financial markets, namely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
a government, were gaining prominence across the globe, especially with their recent investments in troubled U.S. financial firms that had suffered significant losses from the subprime mortgage crisis. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Ivy So and Alina Staskevicius Description: The growth of impact investing has led to an unprecedented focus on impact measurement, with the aim of understanding both financial and social return on these investments. However, impact... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market Securities, a small New York investment View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley