Filter Results:
(699)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (699)
- Faculty Publications (216)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (699)
- Faculty Publications (216)
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
Aligning Strategy and Sales By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract— Much current opinion asserts that strategy is less important (and may, in fact, be an impediment) in an era of constant change. This publication discusses why claims about business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 while enhancing urban resilience. This forward-looking strategy underscores the city’s resolve to adapt to the changing climate while balancing the needs of its people and industries. During our trip... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
retail trading areas. We hypothesize two effects, cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may change over time and may differ between the catalog and online channels. We find that opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
an Earth-shattering cataclysm changes the world forever, foretold by a prophecy from the beginning of time. Dante in China by John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press In John Barr’s poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating strategy of the firm. We also show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripheral products. I wanted to explain in some detail how this happened. Nancy Koehn: Reading Al's work, I was struck by the implications of technological change for the demand side of the economy. As a historian watching the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices, coupled with regulatory changes made by the government, force Colbun to revise its business strategy and its sourcing mix.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
people who make their living studying things like monetary policy and market design? So she called her old friend and colleague, Stephanie Hurder (PHDBE 2013), who was ready for a change after spending three years at Boston Consulting... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Overall, those who accepted smaller portions did not compensate by ordering more calories in their entrées, and the total calories served to them were, on average, reduced by more than 200. We also found that accepting the downsizing offer did not View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
10, I trust the consumer to do the right thing,” he said. “(But) if you’re a regulator, and the consumer does the wrong thing one out of 10 times, that’s 10 percent, and that’s too much for a regulator to tolerate. There’s a disconnect between the View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
changing nature of housing finance and its increasing reliance on less-regulated securitization markets. "As we move to greater reliance on private mortgage credit it will be important to combine such privatization with better... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
state legislatures, and governorships to sign the pledge. Today, 222 members of the House, 46 senators, the President, more than 1,200 state legislators, and 6 governors all have signed. And that has changed the modern political process... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
regulate the industry, and the company became a pioneer in establishing a regulatory model and developing good manufacturing practices for stem cells and human tissue. ViaCord’s first transplant was in 1995, saving the life of a young... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- Person Page
Media
Media
This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American capitalism has always been about experimentation and... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
are also consistent with SOX and regulatory actions reducing the incentives to sell ahead of privately known negative news. Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels Author:Anita Elberse Publication:Journal of Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
core management team where he would recommend an option to outsource its surrogacy services. While the changing cultural and regulatory environment had made surrogacy possible for more people, it remained... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne