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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
and regions have different food safety standards,” Quelch says. “We’re accustomed to taking food safety for granted. When you peel back the onion, you find a tremendous amount of nuance affecting the reliability and specifics of food... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
http://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6820/Socios%20o%20acreedores%20ENG%202-25-15%20web.pdf?sequence=1 March 2015 The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
radiation machine is present. This selection factor obviates those places where resource constraints (i.e., reliable electricity) would be limiting. In the context of sufficient infrastructure, and this indeed exists in many otherwise... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
right now. They need to be reliable and safe. You're in them all the time. Some cars, particularly German cars, will be on the road for twenty to twenty-five years. And yet these are mass production goods." "Our whole society is... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
liquidation value is not directly intuitive, since intangibles are highly illiquid assets and have uncertain future cash flows. Can banks reliably secure corporate loans by intellectual property, and how can they alleviate the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
firms is particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
tenants to pay the cost of utilities, which reduces a landlord's incentive to invest in LEED, or in other energy efficiency capital expenditures. However, government lessees are attractive to landlords because they come with predictable budgets and, therefore, View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49238 Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
Organizations can use elements of self-management in areas where the need for adaptability is high and traditional models where reliability is paramount. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51297 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, tested the potential problem of raters that compete for business favoring the issuers and providing less reliable ratings. Their HBS working paper "Reputation and... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
deal with such cultural differences is critical for business success in China. Secondly, my research suggests that, in a Chinese business environment, the more well-connected a person is in a manager's professional network is, the more likely the manager is to trust... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
This successful electronic medical record (EMR) company had grown thanks to its reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
the landscape. Q: Another hot topic in the nonprofit world is the idea of creating a for-profit business to help underwrite the cost of operations. Is this the way to go to secure a reliable stream of funds? A: I don't think so. There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
improve the lives of the estimated two billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development of this ecosystem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
found that when a star switched companies, not only did his performance plunge, so did the effectiveness of the group he joined and the market value of his new company. But further analysis of the data reveals that it's not that simple. In fact, one group of analysts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace