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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he said. Too much leverage... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypick's business model. Further View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies, View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
it. This can be a win-win for online lenders, banks and the borrowers that both lenders seek to serve. As a case in point, when large banks decline small business applicants, they leave them to sort through complicated loan options from... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Finance in Commercial Real Estate John D. Macomber and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-067 A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. The situation is complicated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
communications or architecture. Randall: Right. In fact, I think it's gotten more complicated as people try to sort out how to improve the capability, speed, and capacity of the existing network. Meakem: Exactly. In our application,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
opposite side is the clear light of right-doing—things which are so generally appealing to the conscience of all that no mistake could be made, no matter how complicated the business. The area of difficulty for business lies in the... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
quest for loyal customers is largely wasted effort ... Companies that have committed to complicated schemes for customer loyalty management (such as Lexus, Staples, and American Airlines) don't have much to show for it... Consultants... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
be in incentives? Plus, the overall approach (thanks in part to the use of compensation consultants) has moved from an individual, situational negotiation to one that is market-based. Yet no one goes back to ask the fundamental question: Is the premise that underlies... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
complicated than we typically think,” she says. Huang arrived at that conclusion after interviews and observations of more than 100 angel investors over the course of the past decade. She also conducted dozens of interviews with the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
beauty ... is that it is not about learning to solve today's problems, but rather about developing the skills and discipline(s) which are timeless." Clinton Gerst suggested some limits of the method in commenting that "The case method is well suited to... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
of dollars to one of the employees. There were also suggestions of a coverup: Easterbrook had allegedly deleted material from his phone. The board made the complicated decision to try to claw back Easterbrook’s severance, resulting in a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Performance and Productivity. Their writings have appeared recently in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review. [Image: gpointstudio ] Related Reading Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings Is the Healthiest Building in the... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
experiencing. To get through this, professionally and personally, here are a few suggestions for things we should do and some we shouldn’t do. Big-picture observations The first thing we should do is understand how complicated the problem... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
with the agency. Despite that admiration, the case ends at a provocative decision point: Bezos and Blue Origin must decide whether to follow the productive NASA partnership into a third, more complicated phase of CCDev, or strike out on... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
complicated bankruptcy in US history, emerged from Chapter 11 with a confirmed plan of reorganization in only three and a half years. Because of Chapter 11 and the expertise of US restructuring professionals who advise troubled companies,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
and complicated than it is today. So I would say the primary impact of the FDA over the past century has been to make predictable the safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products regulated by the agency. As consumers we don't have... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
inversions are often not greeted with a positive price reaction. In short, the view that tax avoidance is simply a net transfer of value from the state to shareholders is complicated by the agency problem between shareholders and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a little more complicated than... View Details