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- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
drop of around one-third of the total weekly sales across the album and its associated songs is directly attributable to people switching to buy music online. And it might be helpful to point out that my model controls for any trends in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds." There is also a suggestion that the job... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
industry. The story of forester Ben Cone Jr. is a touchstone for ESA critics. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found 29 red-cockaded woodpeckers, an endangered species, living on Cone's North Carolina land. Acting under the authority of the ESA, the Service... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” For me, this course built a clear and compelling connection between America’s past and present... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
and only incinerating non-recyclable combustible waste. Flue gas cleaning systems are used to limit emissions from the combustion process, and continuous emissions monitoring and a high-tech control room enable close oversight of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
colonial bases. This will enable the USA to dominate the region and intervene in Saudi Arabia when the monarchy falls. But they will not aggravate ordinary Iraqis. Educated Iraqis are pragmatic. They can control the firebrands. What we... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
reputation over time. Second, it is consistent in always delivering the same message. Third, it distinguishes between the company's performance and the impact of a changed environment by highlighting the indicators that are under its View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
more formal procedural change. And fourth, managerial support and leadership is crucial. Even when implanted and implemented well, these new technologies will certainly bring with them new challenges. These tools may well reduce management's ability to exert unilateral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
thinks there is no value in it. “I think we can learn things from their systems—because they have the ability to do controlled experiments—that we can then take outside or in more traditional, controlled-environment agriculture,” she... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
got control of my destiny." « Back Hers for the Asking As your sure-fire idea for a new business still on hold because you haven't got the nerve to ditch that pesky day job? Do you need some extra inspiration to get up and go for it?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
late 2015, “the environmental groups said, ‘We have all that we need. We’re signing off.’ ” The final deal protected 85 percent of Great Bear from logging while offering forestry companies a process for certainty of operational volumes and locations. The First Nations... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
course for the future, which she outlines in her Harvard Business Review article "Effective Oversight" and her book Financial Accounting and Managerial Control for Nonprofit Organizations (with Denise Nitterhouse). The following are her... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
scribe started. Bob was really bad at keeping his laughter under control (he sat to my right, so I was flattered). 1981A’s Rick Johansen orchestrated a prank one day in the first semester (late 1979) on all the professors we had that day.... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
surrounding their adoption. This finding raises the possibility that even though GPs facilitate some value-increasing acquisitions, they do have, on average, an overall negative effect on shareholder wealth; this effect could be due to GPs weakening the force of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
nutshell, admittedly from a layman’s viewpoint. The Apple phone is designed with a security feature that makes it difficult for an unauthorized user to get to the contents. A four-digit code controls access. Ten incorrect attempts to open... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
at all. In many cases, in fact, the state actually hurts innovation in order to benefit the Party. Take the case of Grace Vineyard, a private winery that makes the best wine in China. "And yet, it has to compete with state-owned enterprises that View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
penalties on the country and its economy. But how enlightening would it be for a country like Greece—small enough to serve as a kind of laboratory for the rest of us—to fail? I assume it would be a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a workout, as we say in US law. Quite likely,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
personalize healthcare and benefits, and Carol Nacy of Sequella, Inc., a biotech firm focused on controlling global infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. Most of the companies were already up and running. Their funding to date has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace