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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
workday. Perhaps most tragically, social distancing has halted many in-person communal grieving rituals like wakes and funerals, adding to the sorrow of people mourning loved ones. Yet, even if the typical ceremonies aren’t practical... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
finds that academic commentary on the BSC often ignores its role in strategy execution. The paper discusses how the BSC can be used in public sector applications, as well as for companies that want to internalize environmental, social, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, and students from low-income communities are seven times less likely to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Stafford Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-060.pdf Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship (revised) Authors:William R.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
communities like leeches. The time is ripe for a new corporate model, driven by a new type of business leader, where creating business value also means creating value for society. Surprisingly, Kanter finds models for these so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. Disclosure of non-financial reports has generated heated debates about whether such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or factory with a focus on its relationship to its surrounding View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from a 2007 World View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
framework. The unified funnel communicates the idea that not only should the marketing funnel and the sales funnel be linked "vertically"—in the sense that Marketing's leads should flow seamlessly into Sales' funnel—but they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2018
- Supplement
Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal (B)
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
Supplements the (A) case. Having successfully spearheaded relief work in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Foundation envisions creating a more comprehensive and sustainable development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Natural Disasters; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Business Strategy; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Nepal
Malloy, Christopher J., Lauren H. Cohen, and Inakshi Sobti. "Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 218-110, March 2018.
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
was not clear that the business was profitable. Rapid scale had come at a cost. In June 2016, BlackBuck had $5 million in the bank and two months of runway. BlackBuck’s focus had been on raising capital and hiring operational staff to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
be to use central banks to oversee this function. As these and other processes are carried out, however, the United States should avoid the temptation to declare that what's good for this country is good for the world. "We have to... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608123 Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank Harvard Business School Case 709-401 In August 2005, the leadership of Turkey's Dogus Group considered opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
government-sponsored organization that was funded with 50 billion yen in equity capital and 10 trillion yen of government-guaranteed funds. Daiei presented the IRCJ with a unique opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of its restructuring strategy which would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace