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  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

Peterson (A).” The case discusses the problems that a recent MBA graduate faces when he joins a new company and has a difficult time managing people. A lot of us are trained to be individual contributors from a young age. Prior to coming to HBS I focused on my... View Details
  • 16 May 2023
  • In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

While I am sure we will continue to analyze the data to better understand the failure’s impact, my early read is that SVB’s failure—perhaps because the government so quickly stepped in—has not resulted in a startup apocalypse. AI startups... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

side, it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. White: How... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • 02 Nov 2023
  • News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

also necessary to allocate debt between the two entities, which will generally entail some kind of refinancing. The transaction must meet certain stringent business purpose tests to qualify as tax-exempt. And if the two entities conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

doctoral student at the University of Chicago. The ‘state’ of the price gap matters Economists generally use two main data models to detect inflation and predict the pace at which retailers raise prices: time dependent and state... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

analyze the data using nonparametric tests and regression analysis. Findings—The mean number of business segments per firm varies significantly by country. Notably, there is no evidence in our sample that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data services. T-Mobile, the smallest of the four major carriers, lacked the scale of its... View Details
  • 13 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

“headphones,” with suggested refinements like “noise-cancelling headphones,” aided by images and text. Farronato wrote the paper with Lu Fang and Zhe Yuan of Zhejiang University; Yanyou Chen of the University of Toronto; and Yitong Wang, an employee at the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail
  • Research Summary

Overview

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Where Is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

By: Arthur Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Disorders; Health Testing and Trials; Power and Influence; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
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  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

and anecdotal information, but despite having over 65,000 citations in the last 50 years, there have been no large-scale experimental causal tests of this theory as it relates to employment.” Enlisting a LinkedIn algorithm To put the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

    • Web

    Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

    number of files simultaneously Some of the file sizes may be large ( > several GB) You will submit a large number of jobs (> 10) to run at the same time You may still testing your code, your workflow, or changing parameters, which may... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    data about its online customers—products purchased, browsing habits, items abandoned in shopping carts—yet it wasn’t fully leveraging all that information. The company began to see this huge pile of e-commerce View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 29 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

    Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne