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  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio return to portfolio standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the possibility of increasing defaults (violations of loan-to-value covenants), foreclosures, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

virtually irresistible. But long-term assessments could differ, particularly if the free service reduces quality and consumer choice. In this short paper, we examine these concerns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55137 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

that is more negative than their own self-assessment in a given domain (i.e., disconfirming feedback), reshape their network in ways designed to attenuate the threat brought about by the feedback, and that this behavior is detrimental to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

to some. “He asked tough questions, even hardware-related stuff,” DU alum Surbhi Sarna told Bloomberg Business last year. “...He was giving us design ideas.” Draper invested in Sarna’s nVision Medical, a medical device company for women’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

  Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

Viking, its literary press, which any serious author would be over the moon to get a contract with. HBSWK: What would you say is the biggest conflict Noma faces? Khaire: When you as a firm are depending entirely on the chef's creativity... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a mandated March 2020 shutdown, the... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

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