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- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
CEO of Global Growth and Operations (GGO). In this new role, Rice was based in Hong Kong and in charge of GE's growth in regions outside the U.S. In March 2011, Jay Ireland, a 31-year GE veteran and corporate officer, was appointed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
success of this particular business is still untested, it's clear that company management is on a transformative course that does not center entirely on the imaging business. To implement Komori's strategy, Fuji established a centralized... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Becker, Zoran Ivkovic, and Scott Weisbenner Publication:Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011) Abstract : We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Indian festival of Diwali. We find evidence of heterogenous effects based on the location of the production center and on gender. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54874 Class Matters: The Role of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] has overacted by... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our evidence suggests that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
collection of wildly diverse, well-intentioned, but poorly organized gaggle of scholars and practitioners who are largely left to their own devises when it comes to deciding how best to teach leadership. From the college classrooms to View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order impact on setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Business School Note 709-050 The International Monetary Fund was dismissed as almost irrelevant to the global economy, but during the 2008 financial crisis, it returned to center stage, providing financial rescues for developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Southwest Airlines One Report, combing financial and nonfinancial performance information. This case examines Southwest's environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports produced in the two years preceding 2009 and follows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
two steps to the side, and jumps over a large pothole. Congress took a giant step forward by establishing a framework for monitoring and addressing systemically risky institutions (SRI). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808087 Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model Harvard Business School Case 408-103 Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the choice of contracting structure has important strategic implications. The Globe: The China Rules: A Practical Guide for CEOs Managing Multinational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace