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- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
clean leakage, results here indicate that a carbon tariff decreases global emissions. Domestic firm profits, on the other hand, can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged due to a carbon tariff, which suggests that carbon tariffs are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supplier reliability tracking is a process whereby customers use past supplier performance to build beliefs about supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Healy, George Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar, and Gui Yang Abstract We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side analysts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
didn’t have the right answer or that my perspective was not informed enough to be valuable. During my career I selected opportunities primarily by looking for people who were smarter than me, motivated, and working on something exciting.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2016
- HBS Seminar
Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business
- Teaching
Overview
Course Requirements
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
For... View Details
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
For... View Details
- April 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
AvantGo
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Richard Owen, CEO of AvantGo, is preparing for a meeting in which he will set the human resource policy for the firm going forward. It has been three months since the company's IPO, and given the tremendous cramp in hiring over the six months prior to the IPO, he knows... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology; Decisions; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; United States
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "AvantGo." Harvard Business School Case 601-095, April 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
look like? Fueled by advances in digital technology, will a select few superstars in media and sports come to have a bigger impact on popular culture than they do now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. However, little is known... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
individuals, and the firms they back are less likely to secure institutional financing or achieve a successful exit. These startups also follow more conservative strategies. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that family members do... View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
other images randomly assigned to each of them by the firm’s centralized queuing system. The analysis covered all 2,766,209 cases that the firm processed between July 2005 and December 2007. Because the radiologists did their work at... View Details
- 18 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View
Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Working PapersAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Combining new, hand-collected data with a widely studied dataset, we examine how firms use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
products... You make more changes overall, so [adopting A/B testing] doesn’t come at the cost of big ideas.” On average, firms that used A/B testing to select the best features for their websites had higher... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Business History - Faculty & Research
Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present... View Details
- Fast Answer
PE & VC investors by investment criteria (industry, stage and geography)
How can I screen for private equity or venture capital firms investing in a particular industry, stage of investment, and/or geography? LSEG Workspace Click on the Search Tools tab and select Private... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace