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- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
precisely what they are—to information that would help people make assessments about which markets they want to be in and how much risk they’re taking on. Highlight it in the same way that we provide information about other asset classes and products. There aren’t... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach to help offset the negative... View Details
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
organizational leaders rely on their own experiences and established success standards to form expectations for these workers, resulting in them feeling discouraged and unable to fit in. The paper, Relational Reconciliation: Socializing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
the industry and accounted for its resilience and how these are likely to influence its future. Publisher's link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22872 2006 John Wiley & Sons Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook By: Lerner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
awareness: What data would help us solve this problem? How would you analyze it? What would you expect to find? What analysis did you run—why? What assumptions did you make? How did you set up the calculation? How did you account for x... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset complementarity to explain this like-buys-like result. We test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
balancing basic and applied research while demonstrating accountability to the company's stockholders: Our scientists get half of their time for themselves, to be free scientists, to think, to dream, to imagine . . . But the other half of... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
institutions, and a number of other microfinance organizations. Its method was simple: develop a consensus-building process around what the quality standards would be. These were not the least-common-denominator standards, said... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
standard refund policies will apply. The intended participant must then enroll themselves in an upcoming session. Can I share my HBS Online account with someone else? No. Your HBS Online View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
that companies can save 20-30 percent on costs by improving processes. In fact, we heard from two companies who are considered gold standards in operational efficiency in their industries, and in examining and honing their processes, they... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Doctoral Research and the Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics. Wyss Award for Excellence in Research (named in honor of Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965) Ximena Garcia-Rada, Marketing Sourobh Ghosh, Technology & Operations Management Alexa Scherf, View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
we need.” The Harvard Business School case study Mobile Banking for the Unbanked explores two very different examples of mobile financial service models: WIZZIT, a third-party startup that teamed with a major bank to provide standard... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
time, managers and corporations seek capital for their ideas, but in doing so they have an inherent conflict of interest about what information to disclose. Therefore, for this complex system to work smoothly requires a governance system where View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
activate the developer, and a standard fixing agent (hypo). Another set of rollers squeezed the negative-positive sandwich out of the camera, and a dry positive print was peeled away from the negative. Traditional photographic processing... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on international View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
the opinion of a European consultant that “those companies with female executives on top level are (hold your breath) ... only those who can afford having women on the board.” The research clearly did not meet the standards of these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy. Several key questions arose during the workshop: To what degree should new reporting standards be melded into the existing corporate accounting model?... View Details