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- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
The Economics of Housing Finance Reform: Privatizing, Regulating and Backstopping Mortgage Markets. In a presentation delivered recently at the Brookings Institution, Scharfstein and doctoral candidate Adi Sunderam also argued for... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
owners and actively engage with boards. To start, in the nomination and election process, shareholders could signal their support (endorsement, neutrality, or nonendorsement) for candidates the board puts forth and vote accordingly. If... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
doctoral candidate Lisa R. Klein and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, offer some important insights. The researchers begin by identifying forces both inside and outside the media industry that are influencing its rapid evolution. Then,... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, where they engaged with 10 global partners on a dozen different design projects. A renowned scholar of colonial-era African history, she isn’t the most obvious candidate for teaching modern business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
EverTrue and is struggling with issues like a conflict in his B2B2C business models and what his next steps should be as well as personal concerns. At the moment, he is trying to decide among three candidates for CTO, and he must weigh... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
executives. I would suggest that boards need to regularly ask themselves whether they have a firm grasp on the operating style and role modeling behaviors of their senior leadership teams. If after candid debate and discussion they... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
support for Trump, the candidate who scores lower on competence in our survey. But two groups respond to the treatment with a large (between 5 and 7 percentage points) increase in their support for Donald Trump: those living in rural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
decide whether to let employees go. In light of Barry-Wehmiller’s people practices and strategy, what should he do? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-010 Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
suppliers? Which potential customers will be most responsive to a particular marketing campaign? Which job candidates should I employ? Machine learning, data science, big data, and predictive analytics all use statistical techniques to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
counterparts, Hamilton was an unlikely candidate for success on Broadway. The trio needed to decide which of two popular routes was best to bring their new musical to Broadway: either take the production straight to Broadway in a “cold... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb Abstract—Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority-by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
examines media and content choices by each candidate and allows students to explore the role of new media in political campaigns. The focus is on fundraising in 2007 and campaigning for Primary delegate votes in 2008. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
employees so they would be viable candidates for jobs long after they left the company. It developed systems to promote employee innovation as well as offering flexible work options such as part time work so employees could focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Real In the summers of 2008 and 2009, when he was a doctoral candidate at HBS, Bernstein hired a team of five Chinese-born Harvard undergraduates to be "embeds" at the plant. They lived in factory dorms and worked alongside... View Details
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
alums. "We set up the forums as opportunities for candid discussion among peers," says Paine. The principal question asked of each participant was this: "If we stipulate that the system of market capitalism has been the source of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Recruiting Andrew Yard (A) Brian J. Hall, Nicole S. Bennett, and Sara del NidoHarvard Business School Case 911-028 This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
which the top five candidates qualify for the general election. Part two is ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the general election, where voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If no View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? This paper sets out to help small businesses decide whether it makes sense to offer discount vouchers. Research was conducted by Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman, Business Economics PhD View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
confidence in their dressed-down rejection of the traditional pricey business suit and tie. It happens in academia, too. Anat Keinan, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, and Silvia Bellezza, a doctoral candidate... View Details