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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
and improved' attributes won't be valuable to customers forever. They should therefore be aware of how the basis of competition in their industries might be changing and preempt the commoditization of their products by finding creative ways to make their products,... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
greater energy security. Indeed, from an energy security perspective, Trombay’s value proposition is unmatched with its reliability as a baseload power source and its ability to flex between imported and domestic coal. This brings us to... View Details
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
reliability and value. Advertising professionals carefully crafted their copy. Nathaniel Fowler advised in his 1897 publicity manual. “There are some advertising lines, old as they may be, that will always live. . . . As the shortest... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
can see through the case the hurdles faced in transitioning a company from pursuing mostly social objectives to mostly profit making. Finally, the case is a useful vehicle for discussing the question of whether and how China can feed itself. Efficient and View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically prefer established technologies that are derisked and have highly View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
effectively, about being able to make good decisions based on reliable information, about being treated fairly." To find the right balance in presenting tricky information, Ertel suggests executives consider the following questions,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
their academic projects. What has been the reaction from COVID-19 researchers? How is the data being used? Cray: Initially, many of the experts we reached out to were optimistic but skeptical that the dataset would be large enough for View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology becomes increasingly important. "The increased use of technology offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Wallet READ MORE Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet Operational Efficiency With more and more consumers using the Internet to conduct transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
growth, beginning at the provincial level to conform with announced national goals; an economy that is propped up by foreign investment; and a country that is actually using less and less energy—energy use being a reasonably reliable... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)
long-duration energy storage, and greywater recycling. Low-carbon cement can drastically reduce the carbon footprint of construction, long-duration energy storage will enable more reliable renewable energy systems, and greywater recycling... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
function and authority to CEOs. Because coaching records, player statistics and team performance are readily accessible, measurement and comparison of organizational performance in the NFL is reliable and consistent. Football coaches use... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
wasn’t a plan, I was just always asked to be a leader. I was never the best athlete or the best at anything. But I have always been a very quick learner and I was so reliable and I always knew where to go. I could see the vision and the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
1929 crash—an event he failed to predict. But, more generally, while individual forecasters came and went, some making it rich and others not, the bigger story is that the industry created key resources for society as a whole. In the process of trying to make View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
problematic compliance histories. These findings support the theoretical promise of meaningful self-policing practices and suggest that voluntary disclosure can serve as a reliable signal of future compliance—but only among a subset of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute terms, dollar-weighted returns are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
describes the most important legal forms of U.S. bankruptcy (Chapter 7 and Chapter 11) and provides definitions of technical terms related to the bankruptcy process. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212081-PDF-ENG DONG Energy: Clean and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
a market in service, reputation, and reliability develops. Social exchanges. People build identities in virtual communities like Korea's Cyworld (90 percent of Koreans in their 20s are members). Firms may then sponsor or co-opt... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
it.” Stephens stressed: “Finance reduced emissions, instead of reduce financed emissions.” He wrote: “To do that we are going to need better and more reliable data and insights from financial institutions and investors, not focused solely... View Details