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  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54860 July–August 2018 Organization Science Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods By: Nagle, Frank... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

different actors (government, for-profit companies and non-profits) involved and then discusses three major health problems—heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and childhood illnesses—to show the different levels of private sector involvement in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

may file for an initial public offering by the end of 2011, according to the New York Times. "Groupon has attracted remarkable interest," says Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman. "With the economy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

such as whether credit card information or social security numbers were at risk of being leaked. However, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, society has become more aware that the misuse of personal but public information can pose... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Managing up is not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives to innovate and that private... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

public and private sectors learn from the events of the past few months? In the public realm, Sandeep Yadav concluded, “It is only by sharing resources globally that we can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • October 2001 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Negotiation; Ethics; Social Issues; Economic Sectors; Investment; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Mining Industry; Chad; Cameroon
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting

By: Kyle Travis Welch
This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Access To Capital; IAS 39; FAS No. 157; FASB; IASB; ASC 820; Covariance Risk; Accounting Beta; Accounting; Private Sector; Valuation; Corporate Finance; Asset Management; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

Dubra, and Alejandro Lagomarsino Abstract—We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

owners (and their investors and lenders) in all sectors will have to both outfit their buildings to measure components of public health and also respond to their occupants doing their own assessments. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

(September-October 2011) Abstract For many decades the cornerstone of corporate reporting has been financial information that is presented in a company's annual, semi-annual, and quarterly reports. These comprehensive financial reports-required by law for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

collaborated with Deloitte on TrustIQ, a proprietary tool that measures key elements of trust in major corporations and public sector organizations. “An increasingly large number of issues are piling up in... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

  Publications March 2015 AFP Exchange Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart. By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

explores how technology and demographics are changing the way companies like Walmart, and their workers, operate. “The pace of change in the retail sector is truly extraordinary,” says Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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