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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
day’s press reports. I have internal meetings with my staff and then, externally, with various American interests, other embassies, Moroccan ministries, and so on. About 20 percent of my time is spent in the field visiting local Moroccan officials and U.S. View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward... View Details
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
startup that designs satellite propulsion systems and hybrid fusion power plants. At Google he was a Vice President, and he was the Project Leader of Project Loon. Mike was the CEO and co-founder of several... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
-0.27. We also present evidence that consumers increased usage ahead of these announced price changes. Finally, we project that the price elasticity converges to a value between -0.30 and -0.35 after ten years. Our findings highlight the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
companies can recruit and retain the next generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S1064-4857_2014_0000016007 Working Papers Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia B. Topalova Abstract—Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
many other investments. In the 1990s, inexperienced firms from rich countries jumped directly into huge projects in some of the world's least developed countries. Their investments reflected almost unbridled enthusiasm for emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Oral Histories | Baker Library
Oral Histories Transcripts Betty J. Diener (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964, DBA 1974) Interview by Livingston Grant, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project , Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
theatre and coordinate the independent efforts from across the three theatres. Our perspective is a marked departure from the Shared Value framework, in that we embrace the inherent value of corporate philanthropy (theatre 1) on one end... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
events, messenger dislike is correlated with the belief that the messenger had malevolent motives (Studies 5A, 5B, & 5C). Studies 6A & 6B go further, manipulating messenger motives independently from news valence to suggest its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such incentive schemes for corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
her to help them get inside the minds of undecided voters in swing states. So Hessan joined the campaign. She kicked off a voter research project that is now extended well beyond the 2016 election. Her approach is qualitative. She's in... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
infringement lawsuits in U.S. district courts. The results of this review would be nonbinding but admissible in later court proceedings. Whether conducted by an independent Patent Litigation Review Board or a division of the U.S. Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
base of Frequent Independent Travelers. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312092-PDF-ENG China Development Bank Li Jin, Matthew Preble, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 212-001 In May 2011, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
everyone, using technologies of abundance: smartphones, renewable energy, and energy storage. And we’re hiring.” Phil Rettger (MBA 1985) Cofounder & CEO, Aetherix Corp. “I’ve been developing renewable electricity projects for over 35... View Details