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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
services.” At HBS, cities and the environment are also a focus of a number of faculty members, especially those affiliated with the newly launched Business and Environment Initiative (BEI). Established to increase understanding about the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably play an important role in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
actually on the HBS website and I called the headhunter and I said, "I really want to interview for this job." Sodexo's a food service company principally. I was in financial services, and the headhunter said, "You've got zero... View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing in real time. “It has basically... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
web of business ties, lending, and cross-shareholdings. In Germany's financial sector, it might be the insurance giant Allianz. In Italy, it may be a set of powerful families. In Russia, it can be the Russian mafia and other protection... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design and deliver flawless services and... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations reduce their energy costs and embrace sustainability by reducing their carbon footprint. Dr. Consulta uses View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
actually built by these firms? Many would argue that answers to these questions are irrelevant. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. They allow companies... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Organization Tax Aversion in Labor Supply By: Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
develop the course curriculum, including identifying course content and scoping field projects for students. The course launched in the fall, with around 30 students participating and supporting around 10 BIPOC-owned Boston businesses.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
countries through both formal business relationships and informal contacts. Formal mechanisms run the spectrum from direct financial investment in overseas businesses that pursue technology opportunities to facilitating contracts and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
company pressed forward with launches of GMO food products in Europe, giving far too little weight to the fact that Europeans were still reeling from the mad cow disease crisis, reports of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
with them. Keinan: It's interesting that both of these chefs may have different passions and solutions, but that [they] started not only business ventures, but ventures with larger visions or missions behind it. It's a very interesting dilemma of how do you balance... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg