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  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

been at for the last 50 years. It starts opening doors to rationalize a new economy that isn’t as dependent on oil as the economy we created. What steps should we take now to prepare for an oil shortage? You’ve really got to go to a sort... View Details
Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

several distributors purposely suppressed supply to profiteer, further increasing prices. In response, the government took full control of the production and distribution of face masks. It halted mask exports and rationed and distributed... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in equilibrium, as long-term rates View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

all-or-nothing situations. Build buy-in, recognizing that offering rational argument and inspiring passion are both essential for gaining and maintaining momentum. And develop upward lines of communication that make their way,... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

deal that brings some rationality to the valuation of Internet stocks. These are just some generic strategies, of course. Your viability as a nonconsolidator will depend directly on the analysis and imagination you bring to the table as... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • Web

About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology

smoothly by rationalizing and prioritizing the work that IT does. They are the behind-the-scenes enablers that empower HBS IT to operate with precision and agility, and assist teams across HBS IT to make informed decisions, streamline... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

stabilize prices, develop a plan to rationalize capacity, and so on. The mentality was that all companies should share equally in the pain; then no one will get hurt too badly. Of course, this approach leads to a perpetually uncompetitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

Governance, edited by Kulsum Ahmed and Ernesto Sanchez-Triana. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2008 Abstract This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Change for Change's Sake Authors:Freek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

are large. However, the proposed exchange ration values Mellon at a discount to its last closing price, even though it is the smaller and non-surviving bank. Kelly must consider the various dimensions of the deal—specifically the value of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

http://hbr.org/product/go-mobile-aligning-district-managers-and-store-teams/an/114034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-076 Leader Bank, N.A. No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/leader-bank-n-a/an/214076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

First, despite claiming that they want to leave the world in good condition for future generations, people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

of values and purpose, we have come to privilege efficiency and rationality as paramount. This tendency is most marked in modern business organizations. It should not be surprising, therefore, that organizational scholars should no longer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Bibliography - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture 1884-1929 . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Campbell, Heyworth, Art Centre Bulletin (September 1924): 1, no. 1. Calkins, Earnest Elmo.... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

INK: Out of Exile

Dina Nayeri (MBA 2006) was born in Iran in 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, and grew up amid the sirens and rations of war. Her mother was a doctor, but also a Christian—a crime for which the Islamic Republic threatened to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

Andrei, and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract—In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users who join a given platform. In this paper, we distinguish two ways in which rational expectations can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

marriage market, this study provides timely and compelling empirical evidence of the unintended consequences on later life outcomes of sex selection in India. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53295 Habit Formation and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

(residual income) the conceptual conflict is exacerbated by the adoption of 'fair value' (FV) as the measurement basis for assets and liabilities rather than the more theoretically grounded approach of 'deprival value/relief value' (DV/RV), which better reflects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne