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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
competitiveness fundamentals to productivity and prosperity outcomes. On these indicators Sweden is compared to a peer group of other advanced EU and OECD countries. The Scorecard finds Sweden's competitiveness to be solid overall,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference analysis that compares U.S. equity holdings in affected and unaffected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is calculated by dividing the lifetime... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
associated with the adoption of sustainability by the industry’s market leaders and the relative importance of environmental and social issues compared to governance issues. Further, we distinguish between a set of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues publish about 100% more papers in the editor's journal, compared to years when he was not editor. In contrast to editorial nepotism, such "inside"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
under historical market conditions, compared to simulated losses of $280 billion in the absence of equity extractions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-023.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
the debate on human anatomical goods has focused on limiting the market's reach. The U.S. legal commerce in cadavers proves an anomaly in the broader debate on morals and markets (Fourcade-Gourinchas and Healy 2007; Zelizer 1979), particularly when View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
funds-of-funds do not add value compared to hedge funds. However, funds-of-funds should not be evaluated relative to hedge fund returns in publicly reported databases. Instead, the correct funds-of-funds benchmark is the set of direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts outperform on their stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
influence facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
new system, based on time-driven activity-based costing, to calculate and compare costs and margins of the three types of office visits. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
interactions become. Q: How does this mode of preparation compare to preparation in business? A: In a way it's the opposite of planning that happens in business sometimes, which is all about creating patterns we expect. There are certain... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Ukraine will likely intensify, roiling energy markets further and raising questions about the future of globalization, says HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal. Putin’s iron fist vs. Zelensky’s moral clarity Historian and HBS professor Nancy Koehn, author of ‘Forged in Crisis,’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
to another level, Ferguson compared evolutionary developments in the natural world with recent developments in the global economic system. Over the past two decades, he explained, there has been an “incredible financial evolution,” from... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
findings to Quelch. Comparing notes after the exercise, most found they had reached similar conclusions. As an added bonus, the class also learned what ads Intel ultimately chose - and why - directly from Linda Clark, Intel's director of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest how ambidexterity acts as a dynamic capability. We suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
But the interesting thing about the model, if you compare your happiness with the person you're closest with, is that a middle third for us is actually one of us is happy and one of us isn't. And in those moments, which is a very large... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
"Then we asked if there was anything else she wanted to tell us, and she said that he was one of the nicest, kindest, most empathetic little boys she'd ever known. If you try to compare that with the biggest deal I ever did, you just... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
depth and we were able to compare and contrast the leaders in some of these other high tech companies and why they've had different outcomes. We talked to a much broader basis about what is the public responsibility of corporations when... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne