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  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

high levels of reserves acts as a hedge against negative external shocks. A quantitative exercise, in which our model matches features of the Brazilian economic fluctuations and exchange-rate volatility,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Mattias E. Fibiger
Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
  • November–December 2024
  • Article

How to Avoid the Agility Trap

By: Jianwen Liao and Feng Zhu
Agility is all the rage in strategy circles these days. According to conventional wisdom, organizations should rapidly react to technological advances, new market dynamics, and shifting consumer preferences. But in practice this is nearly impossible to pull off,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

By: Aldo Musacchio
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
Keywords: History; Law; Development Economics; Investment; Corporate Governance; Finance; Business and Government Relations
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  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

There’s a scene in the drama series Mad Men when junior ad exec Peggy Olson complains to her mercurial boss Don Draper, “You never say thank you.” Don peevishly replies: “That’s what the money is for!” Harvard Business School Professors Rawi E. Abdelal and Thomas J.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

History - Entrepreneurship

50-year career as one of the world's most effective and influential venture capitalists, he helped seed the success of economic powerhouses such as Teledyne, Intel, and Apple Computer. And in 2003, through an unprecedented gift, he... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk

By: Robert J. Barro and Gordon Y. Liao
A new options-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the overall stock market when disaster risk is the dominant force, the size distribution of disasters follows a power law, and the economy has a representative agent with Epstein-Zin utility.... View Details
Keywords: Option Pricing; Rare Disaster; Price; Stock Options; Financial Crisis
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  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

then they want to do something interesting and new with it. And so the work of a string quartet playing at this level becomes an entirely new creation, a new version of one of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

the work doesn't need to involve curing cancer in order to be meaningful. It simply must matter to the person doing it. The actions that set in motion the positive feedback loop between progress and inner work life may sound like Management 101, but it takes discipline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Career Support - Business & Environment

unique career visions without being limited by compensation levels, regardless of industry or location. Funding is available for students joining existing organizations, as well as for those founding new ventures and who have not yet... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

grocery. All of the new businesses were unprofitable, though, and the losses from rural retailing threatened to overwhelm the entire company. Even worse, the avian flu had dented the poultry feed business, hitting the pockets of its... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

FabioFilzi Key aspects of corporate sponsorship programs, while designed to advance women’s careers, may end up widening the gender gap rather than narrowing it, according to new experimental research. “We’re not trying to say that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

factoring in long-term economic sustainability should be standard in developing any corporate strategy—something I learned through the course and have already been able to apply. After taking this course, I firmly believe that what’s good... View Details
  • 04 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

and New Year’s, and why I always had to bring back a bunch of gifts for family after travelling. Over the years, however, I have become less focused on differentiating the Filipino experience from the AAPI experience and, instead, have... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

The collapse of the US housing finance system, the subprime mortgage crisis, was a key contributor to the international economic crisis ignited in 2008. What should government do to prevent such an economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

"by the numbers." We discuss relational incentive contracts that use informal weights on formal performance measures. More importantly, we suggest how formal measures can be used in new models of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne