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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Finance and Financial Stability Initiative evaluate the demand for long term government bonds from Pension and Insurance companies. Regulatory changes are used to provide collaborating evidence that the curvature of the yield curve is... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
What’s in it for me? whereas givers will ask, How can I help this person?—not for any gain, but just because it’s the right thing to do. Givers become successful because of the long tail of good will they... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
activity and sales, but it isn’t a [direct] one, to be frank, and it's often a long tail effect. So, a lot of times, you have to just be patient. What I ask my students is, "Let's think about the... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
nominal and real interest rates in the last four decades, and how their recent trends and their potential evolution in a world characterized by structural changes in the way economies are organized and in geopolitical tail risks might... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
will try to maximize every encounter for themselves, right? The question they ask is, What’s in it for me? whereas givers will ask the opposite question, How can I help this person? Not for any gain but just because it’s the right thing to do. Givers become successful... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
goes on and consumers buy more goods online, the tail is getting longer but decidedly thinner. And the importance of individual bestsellers is not diminishing over time—it is growing. That explains why Netflix, YouTube, and other online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
if you’re creating online content, some element of storytelling—real people working through real problems—makes it stick. It’s relatable, and thus, memorable. What role will online learning play in the recovery? PM: I think interest will only grow. We’re going to have... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy in the long run. When you look... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
All manner of publications are on a similar trajectory. And going “all-in online” has peculiar cultural drawbacks. I’ve never worked at a magazine or newspaper where print writers gleefully did stories for their Web site. Why bust your View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; and F. Warren McFarlan, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, who have produced hundreds of cases over their long careers at HBS. “This was an educational... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
easier?' " she adds. "It's all about working with the unit manager to help people be more effective, not just looking for positive or negative actions." Long Tail Problems Tucker hopes to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
item popularity curve. Jim Heskett asks: Does the Long Tail represent a paradigm shift for business and consumer behavior? What are its implications for management going forward? Is MySpace.com Your Space?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
demonstrate a highly skewed distribution in which almost all inventions are useless, a few are of moderate value, and only a very, very few are breakthroughs. Those breakthroughs constitute the long tail of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
Liber. Nicholas Qiu | 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery US Army ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Woodbury, Minnesota REASON FOR SERVING: Growing up in Hawaii as the son of two Chinese immigrants, I remember two things distinctly. Spam Musubi and my rat View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
your unique bridge and “network your tail off!” Both strategic parts of the process would be key to Mbanusi securing a summer internship at DBL Partners, one of the largest impact investing funds in the country; a winter internship with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Labor Relations Board then notifies the business owner that a secret ballot election must take place within six weeks. During that time employers wishing to make the case to their employees that they would be better off without a union are free to do so, as View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
countries, but also especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like Brazil and India seems to result from a long tail of poorly managed firms, which barely exist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
on average, than winning percentages in the second halves. This result was significant, indicating that coaches’ teams tend to tail off after peaking. We have dubbed this 15 percent drop-off “the second-half tenure penalty.” As expected,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details