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- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
Brian Kenny: What motivated you to write the case? Why were you interested in it? Thales Teixeira: Some of my research is on the economics of attention and online reviews have amassed a vast amount of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
asymmetric equilibrium where only one retailer elects to operate an online arm but earns lower profits than its bricks-only rival. We also characterize equilibria where firms open an online channel, even though consumers only use it for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
portions of its profits in the business—through research and development, market expansion, capital expenditures, and most importantly (and often forgotten) development of talented people and leaders. This virtuous circle creates value... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
meaningful and economically sustainable," he says. Lassiter's Market-based Proposal His proposed market-based solution? "I think each energy source—oil, natural gas, wind, nuclear, solar, etc.—should have a market price based not only on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
1%. “People are already moving across borders for economic opportunities because water is scarce and agriculture is changing. How are we preparing to receive the newcomers?” The risks are not limited to potential conflicts in the future.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
found, given, and transmitted from the past." Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish writer who named economics "the dismal science," famously declared for the other side: "The History of the world is but the Biography of great men." Our instincts... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
School’s Leadership Initiative. But there’s another way to assess business success, as found in the pages of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Mayo (MBA ’88) is the book’s coauthor, with HBS professor Nitin Nohria and... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
Khaire is a good barometer for such estimations, having deeply researched how value and markets are constructed around creative industries and products. In studying the modern Indian art market, for example, which was just starting to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
pressures. Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Humanizing Victims Predicts Intergroup Helping Authors:Amy J. C. Cuddy, Mindi Rock, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
open systems that can be leveraged by anyone will thrive over closed, proprietary systems; I think of the United States as an open system in that sense." One of Ranadivé's earliest dreams was to study at MIT, which he learned of through a documentary film on the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
circumstances. Last year, he launched Social Venture Partners (SVP) India is a spin-off of the Seattle-based nonprofit that pools philanthropic activities in a local area, in order to focus financial power on effectively solving local social and View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
made to bear the full cost of that decision. So that's another indirect way whereby we can use our economic influence to help businesses and individuals make proper, fully, risk-aware decisions. DM: But it also sounds like there's a point... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players to the table, none driven by purely View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
hope the School’s researchers will make a record of the number of MBAs from HBS and other leading business schools at each level of the companies and government agencies that have played a role in the demise of our financial system. How... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
firms such as Elliot and Dart as "vultures" or "rouge creditors" who sought to profit on sovereign debt restructurings at the expense of countries suffering economic hardship and of the majority of bondholders whose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
planning and implementation for a 15-year, $40 billion initiative with the goal of creating sustainable development and economic revitalization for Colombo and its surrounding provinces, population 5.8 million. It’s why he has returned to... View Details