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  • 22 Mar 2022
  • News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

with other alumni clubs around the world and had some fantastic speakers. We’ll continue with some virtual programming, since Houston is a very spread-out city and sometimes our members can’t make some events. It’s nice to have an View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall Street outcasts, are now... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

design "path" both advance and impede absorptive capacity. Changes in path allow rapid experience with alternative ideas, and this eventually aids adoption and invention capacity. However, these changes temporarily harm the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration. Collaborative innovation can take a wide variety of forms, each with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

advance the HBS mission by preserving the history of business, acquiring data for groundbreaking scholarship, disseminating research to high-value audiences, and championing new ways to thoughtfully harness artificial intelligence. 20th... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

  Working PapersUser, and Open Collaborative Innovation: Ascendent Economic Models Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany, India, UK, and U.S. using a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

alternative measures of trade costs, address potential reverse causality, and explore regional patterns. CEO Personality and Firm Policies By: Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina Abstract—Based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

at the available data in order to confirm or challenge prevailing views of the world. Climate change is a worldwide problem that requires a worldwide mindset, he noted. Similarly, the need for low-cost clean energy is a worldwide problem,... View Details
Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

patient can lead to better outcomes and less cost. Source: Data Visualization by Blair Storie-Johnson “Maybe that pre-surgical conversation costs an extra $100, in a physician’s or nurse’s time; but if you can save $5,000 in rehab, that’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

health insurance. Every year, they have to review alternative health insurance plans, make risk-return tradeoffs, and choose the ones they prefer for themselves and their families. In Japan and Western Europe, most citizens receive their... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

are likely to find in coming years that the problems borders create are easily solved by forward positioning goods and services. Free-trade zones and special warehouses that preposition products for anticipatory delivery, helped by data... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

  Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract—Selecting among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2021
  • News

Building Hope

Courtesy Mike Zapolin In the United States, military veterans—especially those with PTSD symptoms—are among the most at-risk populations for suicide. The numbers are bleak and getting worse: According to data collected by the Veterans... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell