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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
already been litigated in the press and before Congressional committees. My interest is in the 5,300 who were fired. Were they fired for cheating to meet goals for customer loyalty (and ironically risking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
fewer risks for fear of making mistakes and thus losing their job? Also of interest to us is whether companies adjust their strategies based on noncompete enforcement. We might expect, for example, that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime avoidance. Moreover, protection activities by one group can displace crime onto another group. We take advantage of a dramatic increase in crime rates in Argentina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
(revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of the rate at which click-through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
for shareholders." Perhaps with this in mind, a small but growing number of public company CEOs are electing not to provide earnings guidance, risking reduced interest on the part of analysts and... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
described: [B]ecause we are starting fresh, we don't have the collective memory of mistakes. [B]ecause India is booming, because our balance sheet is strong, people don't see risk in the same way they would do if they were working in [a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached from the real economy. And they were upset by the potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to damaging legislation. “The... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
annually over the first eighty-five years of this century, have surged over the past decade to over 120 thousand per year. This does not appear to reflect the impact of changes in domestic patent policy, shifts in the success rate of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
design with features that many people may not consider to be good value for the money. To return to the car analogy, it might demand a heated seat in every vehicle. As for public insurance, it ignores real costs in its pricing and may... View Details
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
process posing other more interesting propositions for consideration. Tony Wanless emphasized the importance of knowing the way leaders learn from experience, suggesting the need for "a synthesis of thinking that adds value to the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett