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- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
social inequality." Romuald Kepa added: "The invention of the steam engine and resulting shifts in the society are great providers of insight… Luckily, (the) world did not collapse " Others were not so sure that productivity is the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn to reap the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Alibaba is about to make history with the first genuine mega-IPO of a Chinese entrepreneur-founded company in the United States. The numbers are historic as well—an anticipated market capitalization of some $200 billion. It comes to the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Department of Housing and Urban Development, the primary agency for dealing with affordable housing in this country, is about $35 billion. Realtors say the sky will fall if we end the mortgage interest deduction—that it would adversely... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
that design innovation often involves a high degree of uncertainty in terms of market success. "It's very hard to understand what people want," he says. "If I make a car that can brake in 10 yards instead of 50, that's a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
articulating the desired ‘way we intend to operate,’ but even this is best done to explain ‘why’ we are making process, design and/or strategic changes.” Others refused to think in terms of one primary starting point. Connie Chen... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
created by customers and clients and their increasing expectations that we be available day and night. Even more can be laid at the feet of leadership. But ultimately the primary culprit is us. That's my sense of the comments concerning... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
of organizational alignment—the primary focus of this book—the enterprise must also align its employees and management processes with the strategy. Having aligned and integrated strategies at all organizational units yields little if... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the video game View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), and the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (AMLF). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving causes greater happiness. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to be coupled with very low life satisfaction. Thus, people may work hard to maintain or increase their income in part because they overestimate the hedonic costs of earning low levels of income. Capital Market Driven Corporate Finance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
confronts the challenge of whether its business model will continue to be viable under radically altered market conditions and a new regulatory regime. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310056-PDF-ENG Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and... View Details