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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
than taxing them more heavily. Similarly, the weight of the empirical evidence is that foreign activity is a complement, rather than a substitute, for domestic activity. Much as the formulation of trade policy requires resisting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social networks... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
financial-statement users come to outweigh institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology) that make IFRS adoption costly. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of IFRS harmonization among countries, although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
experiences and services at scale, from the smartphone to the desktop to interactive TV." —Bob Lord (MBA 1990), CEO, AOL Networks "Cloud storage will become more specialized (versus generic services like Dropbox). I think we'll begin to... View Details
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
Solutions in the Global South; Industrial Trade & Policy; and Developing and Scaling First-of-a-Kind Technologies. The day provided many different chances for the attendees to network, including coffee breaks in between panels and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- Blog Post
A first semester reflection
internships and jobs before HBS, and they always responded with an emphatic “yes.” It felt like classmates were coming out of the woodwork to offer help with prepping for interviews, and I’ve been listening to their advice intently. The HBS View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris
the incredible network that business school opens became a lot more apparent to me after a few years in the working world. Tyler – It was a bit clearer to me that I wanted to attend business school. After a couple years of consulting, I... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant start-up challenges. Every platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
ideas," Coval says. Over the course of a simulation, students input their decisions on networked computers; once trading is halted, the program automatically generates a slideshow summary of individual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information about large stock trades to their best, most lucrative clients. When a savvy activist investor submits a trading order through a brokerage firm, for example, the brokers will exploit this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
than three months into her tenure at the business news network — turned her attention to determining what services and coverage CNBC could provide at a time when the U.S. stock markets were closed. On the morning of September 11, Pamela... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Bibliography | Manuscript Collections | Trade Publications Bibliography Bruner, Robert F., and Sean D. Carr. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm . New York: John Wiley &... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
continuity. "A smooth transition will be accomplished," the veteran government official vowed. Hui noted that the long-term future looks bright as well: trade with the mainland, now Hong Kong's biggest View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a consumer?" asks Associate Professor Benjamin Edelman.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
February, featured a keynote address by Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, who, during her tenure as U.S. Trade Representative from 1996 to 2001, pursued an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets around the world. Barshefsky, currently... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
search affiliated sellers (stores). There are three motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total consumer traffic for higher revenues per consumer visit, 2)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne