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01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The findings suggest that adjustment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

gets slippery very quickly. Personally, I think it’s a fair thing for Apple to make it into a public debate and get a reaction from other tech people, as well as the public, especially given the stakes. As Bill Gates has already said,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

01 Mar 2008
News

Centennial Goes YouTube

struggles. John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), former cochairman of Goldman Sachs, recounts how he struggled as an incoming Haverford College freshman to earn enough to cover the $900 tuition. With pluck and luck, he landed a job in the amusements area of the 1939 New York... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

And if you know what it costs to produce something, you know what constitutes a fair price. "If the annual chance of loss is 1 in 100 for a potential $100,000 insurance claim, then the expected loss is about $1,000 a year." But... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

collaborators are State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs), which work with Self- Help Groups (SHGs) across India to rollout sustainable livelihood activities. Operating primarily in Karnataka, Odisha, and the North Eastern regions of... View Details

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

use of the strategic text sequence prompted the AI assistant to choose the targeted products for recommendation even though they didn’t always meet the consumer’s stated criteria. For example, one of the machines was repeatedly included... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

January 2024
Supplement

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)

By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn

GlassHouse Research identified accounting red flags at Catalent. Fiat Lux Partners countered most of GlassHouse’s claims. Who was right? This update explores the aftermath of the short seller duel. View Details

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Purchase

20 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

handbag with a sale price of $40, along with a “true original price” and a “displayed original price,” each of which ranged $40 to $90. They were then asked a series of questions, including whether they thought the bag was high quality, a good deal, and at a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

14 Nov 2019
News

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh

brand. Well-known, right. How do you change people's vision of what that is? KL: So that is a really terrific question, because our brand is 51 years old and there are a fair number of people who may not have been to one in the past 20... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

taxes. I generalize the conventional model to incorporate multiple normative frameworks. I then show that if the principle of equal sacrifice-a classic, comprehensive criterion of fair taxation proposed by John Stuart Mill and associated... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

was one of the first days of his tenure, and already novice HBS Dean John McArthur was facing a group of fired-up students with a bone to pick. Where, the students wanted to know, was the Starting New Ventures course, listed right there in the MBA catalogue? It was a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2001 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Doral Costa

By: William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel and Amy Silverstein

Doral Costa is a proposed 277,803 square foot Class A office park development in Miami, FL. Trammell Crow Co. would like to develop this office park in joint venture with a partner. Samantha Spar, the acquisitions partner at Titan Associates, a large real estate... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Joint Ventures; Acquisition; Investment; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Fair Value Accounting; Construction; Property; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry; Miami

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03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and risks of their firms' assets. It's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank could be rescued and mandating an after-the-fact audit by the Comptroller... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in multiple View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details

September 2010
Case

Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV

With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details