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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
underground economic activities work to put cyber currencies in context, the book discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cyber currencies in today's underground economy. It also includes an appendix of illuminating primary documents, providing... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
computing, deep sensing, simulation, analytics and application services with the fabric of buildings and infrastructure. The hope is that a smarter building process results in smarter buildings, and smarter buildings View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
under historical market conditions, compared to simulated losses of $280 billion in the absence of equity extractions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-023.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
not fully understand the importance of complying with all aspects of their recommended treatments, which eventually leads to deteriorating health and higher treatment costs. In this study, the authors analyze historical data of dialysis... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
led investment strategy and developed their “Innovation Fund,” focused on funding the next generation of philanthropy technology. Ben also forged Charity Navigator’s first partnership with the private sector, resulting in thousands of... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
clear, immediate, and direct, 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time, and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the former and disapprove of action in the latter, despite identical consequences. The difference is often explained in terms of the intention principle—whether the consequences are intended or incidental. Our results suggest that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year) View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
to the current dialogue about the pedagogy looking forward. Covering a period of over 100 years, this vast topic is one we cannot fully address. We hope this exhibition, publication, and the accompanying website offer insights into the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
research on complex organizations. Yet, the behaviors of top executives are frequently featured as an important determinant in historical treatments of strategic change inside large firms. Theories of organizational ecology,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
framework that has significant corporate applications as well. The concepts in this book are grounded in a historically significant case study on how the American President deals with foreign policy. We are highly critical of much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
Europe, the United States, and Japan. The continuing evolution of both consumer electronics and computers resulted from continuous learning in the commercializing of new technologies and enhancing of existing ones. To repeat: The initial... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
coverage of the government's corruption scandals by 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18% of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper president, and individual-corruption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
S&P 500 index and are only marginally higher than the risk-free rate as of the end of 2008. The combined impression from these results is that the return experience of hedge fund investors is much worse than previously thought.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
with the literature on heuristics and biases), and the study of thinking too much (as with the literature on decision analysis). In this review, we focus on the different types of decision errors that result from both modes of thought.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
slashed their R&D budgets, focusing instead on their core markets—and often with dreadful consequences. For instance, the book notes, Eastman Kodak's R&D outlay fell from $1.6 billion in 1992 to $859 million in 1994, as then-CEO George Fisher chose to focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Historical Political Economy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
nature, and extent of the resulting book-tax difference; and the policy reasons for continuing or ending the stock option book-tax difference. Here is Desai's summary statement to the subcommittee with a link to his full testimony.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai