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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

response to, varying market conditions. However, while the problems of balance-sheet liability and revenue recognition, and the related problems of income statement presentation, can be resolved by the application of DV/RV reasoning, this is not sufficient fully to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

Professional service firms—law firms, financial services firms, money management firms, private equity firms, hedge funds, management consultants, advertising agencies—are the most challenging and exciting organizations to lead, maintain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

norm, female-led social ventures are likelier to engage in commercial activity. These are among the key findings in the paper Blurring the Boundaries: The Interplay of Gender and Local Communities in the Commercialization of Social Ventures, published in a recent View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

countries have approached the question of gender equity in corporate governance in various ways; which model might best work for France? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412061-PDF-ENG Sykué Bioenergya Shon R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

little familiarity with the nature of our case writing and research. This poses some challenges that are less of an issue with U.S.-based cases. We have especially found that the decision to allow HBS to write a case about the company... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

understood or utilized in practice. It consists of actions to set up and modify the architecture of the negotiation itself — that is, to determine who takes part under what expectations, the sequence in which they are brought into the process, what View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

management style on the performance of her team. In the spring of 2005, Leslie must decide whether to re-design the firm and/or change her management style in order to address the performance issues that Versutia is facing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

analyze conditions under which these attack types are likely to succeed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Unstable Equity? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing Authors:Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

"Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, Emeritus. Domini is president of the Domini... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

now the government says they really meant 180. That takes its toll. Q: What about the effect on the financial markets? A: When it comes to the shutdown, I'm less concerned about them. I think that equities respond to a lot of things, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

would expect that the temptation would be to continue to play your strong suit and try and express your own taste and your ideas because it’s worked for you for 50 years. The second issue you’d expect of anybody in this situation would be... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

population and per capita consumption growth, the limited nature of resources and sinks, and the responsibility and exposure of firms to ensuing ecological risks and costs. We then discuss how an operations management lens contributes to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

support the creation of highly differentiated products. It also deals with issues of change in an already successful context, and of managing highly creative staff who are vital to a company's business model. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

competition.t Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708477 Databank in Africa Harvard Business School Case 708-478 This case tackles issues of regional strategy and strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

applies in cases where the political process is sufficiently "thick," in that diverse views are well represented, and sufficiently detailed information about the issues is widely available. However, we draw on a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

and Marketing Services Industry? Myth vs. Realty Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Publication:Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze changes in concentration levels in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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