Filter Results:
(646)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (646)
- Faculty Publications (142)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (646)
- Faculty Publications (142)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Global e-Business Leader at Braxton, formerly Deloitte Consulting) urge managers to think as though they were settlers of a new business frontier that has been carved out by forces such as technology, societal change, political strife, and View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Dubbed by Fortune as one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, Margie Yang is proud to be part of an ever-growing number of Asian-born female executives and entrepreneurs. But she prefers to put the spotlight on The Esquel... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
savings from the loans to lower taxes. "This action is consistent with politicians seeking reelection by catering to taxpayers' preference for low taxes, which represents a likely channel for the previous result on the effects on... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
understands his side's massive advantages in the process. With the economic fate of Welz's newly public smaller firm in the balance, Welz and his team must figure out how to handle some very tough tactics by Spitzer and his minions aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
telecom business. The panelists responded that there is not much distinction between the types of value VCs add. They are, in general, quite cautious as a result of an obvious shakeout in service and the inevitable shakeout in equipment. While most of the panelists... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama to influence my View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
sustainable change in particular-can be most effectively managed. The book begins by laying out the economic case for change, while subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer maximizing joint gains (e.g., self gets $600 / counterpart gets $800) instead of receiving lower amounts... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
PublicationsRecent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:,em>Annual Review of Economics Vol. 2 (2010) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
true, which sounds a lot like the moment through which we’re living, but they managed to get there without Twitter and Facebook and YouTube. I do have a certain kind of hope for generational change in two ways. Enough mayhem was created by polarization in the 1930s—and... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another important issue to consider: in our setting, the key factor that determines whether two functions or firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online Attention was written by Andre... View Details