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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
lasting implications. According to the United Negro College Fund, “Only 57 percent of Black students have access to the full range of math and science courses necessary for college readiness, compared to 81 percent of Asian American... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
studying hard. Chess, Berman says, even gave him the smarts to get into HBS. Berman treats the game like a religious vocation and he preaches its virtues wherever he goes, often sending chess sets to friends with small children in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
comeback." Redefining Competition Redefining an industry's value also means redefining the competition, Raffaelli says. And in order for a technology to resurge, the whole industry must do that. In the case of the Swiss, for example,... View Details
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Dominika has experience teaching graduate-level courses, e.g., HBS MBA course Driving Profitable Growth with Prof. Gary Pisano, as well as undergraduate-level courses, e.g., Harvard College course Men, Women, and Work with Prof. Mary Brinton. Dominika also oversaw and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
provide a contrast with BP's payments, the case depicts the payments made by Exxon after the Exxon Valdez spill. The U.S. regulatory regime is then briefly compared with regimes in other countries. After a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals, it's easy to fall into the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the newsrooms of those that are left, leaving them understaffed and... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
companies, taking as our point of departure a particularly energetic debate during a symposium at the 2007 Academy of Management meetings. We surface the assumptions that underlie such debates, compare them with findings from our research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
he says. "And obviously there should be a method for periodically testing and critiquing that strategy, and modifying it if it's not working." Ebrahim is working on a series of case studies focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
There are very few scholars who can legitimately say that they founded a discipline. Al Chandler is one of them. Prior to Chandler, business history tended to be the study of individual businesses or entrepreneurs with little theoretical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt listening is to effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady Gaga, from actor Tom Cruise to... View Details
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar