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- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
Summing Up This month's column presented two views of the importance of customer loyalty management, one challenging its feasibility and long-term impact (Michael Treacy, Double Digit Growth) and one concluding that it is one of the most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
incremental change, while also seizing new markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation rule the day. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50401 forthcoming European Economic Review Taxation, Corruption, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
in S&E, cumulative GPA strongly and positively predicts long-term patenting; this result is robust to controlling for choices of major and career. In contrast, GPA negatively predicts the probability of taking a first job in finance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers with the highest overlap in analyst coverage, in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation multiples, (c) growth rates, (d)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
impact the long-term value of a public company. To advance its cause, the Office targeted Home Depot. In an effort to bring about change at the company, the AFL-CIO and AFSCME corresponded with Home Depot executives, staged public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Business History at Harvard Business School. Jones talked with us about the book. Sean Silverthorne: Given the growth of the Turkish economy and the country’s importance in geopolitical circles, it seems surprising that this book appears... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that when the government funds itself with relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous boom in the venture capital industry. The pool of U.S. venture capital funds has grown from less than $1 billion in 1976 (Charles River Associates 1976) to over $60 billion in 1999. This View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
significant, but not economically significant. For example, one study found that the difference between affiliated and unaffiliated analysts' forecasts of earnings growth was statistically significant, but the forecasts were 21.3 percent... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or factory with a focus on its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
thought of as something that's investable for private equity. We see exciting young, growth companies, and we want to make them available to our limited partners." Hence, the creation of Causeway Media Partners, an investment fund... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
questions whether the model's effectiveness will wane with Google's continued growth and maturity. Nevertheless, Google has influenced the management approaches of many other high tech firms with bright futures. Will its View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
domestic skills market is far more relevant to the future of American workers than potential job losses through expanded trade with other Pacific-rim nations. Signs of distress The long-term structural decline of American jobs began well... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
healthcare system. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53401 Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives By: Bergquist, Ann-Kristin Abstract—This working paper provides a long-term business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
market's record-setting rampage, the industry's asset growth has been driven by baby-boomers using mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne