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- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
was shocked by their advice. “They said, ‘Try three Advil a day. It might help. There are a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
to the short-term ones.” Steinwender points out that their findings only apply to companies in the wake of a financial crisis brought on by a banking crash—and don’t necessarily apply to crises brought on by demand shock or currency... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
neck," observed Kuemmerle. For him, Jinwoong also exemplifies what an entrepreneur can do to rescue a company by restructuring when such an exogenous shock occurs. Unlike many around the world, Jinwoong managed to successfully... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
the Forbes list. That was, and still is, surprising to many people,” she says. “It’s shocking because our mindset relative to Africa just isn’t programmed to think of them as being wealthier than Americans. We think they are people to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
prediction to 76 percent. The rest of the predictions stayed flat or even decreased. “We were shocked about how pessimistic people were in their trusting versus how they should be. It was pervasive. Again, even after we told them the... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
largest shocks in the history of the U.S. banking system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-106.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPiramal e-Swasthya: Attempting Big Changes for Small Places-in India and Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
generate and distribute electricity, and that contribute in other important ways in the delivery of energy services. Reinhardt notes a certain similarity in today's rhetoric with media accounts of what was heard during the oil shocks of... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity attenuates the effect of adverse View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
that in countries with higher GDP growth leverage is correlated with less corporate financial fragility. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) this paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Nigeria, saw how Ebola ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016, which prompted her to think about how she could have an impact in Africa when macro shocks occurred. The crisis led her to HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School—the first steps on... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
opportunity cost. We did not force it and each went our separate ways after graduation, accepting roles at other startups in New York. Of course, the “aha" moment for Hilma happened at a completely random time with Nina and Hilma’s third co-founder, Lily Galef. We... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
pandemic-related business shock is permanent versus temporary? For example, has the world moved to more of a takeout culture instead of one that eats in restaurants? Will fewer people travel? You have to always be careful when you’re... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
involves designing, launching, and managing teams. And yet teams are fickle. Even as teams become more common at all levels of organizations, a shocking number of them fail to live up to their potential or even to deliver at all. Teams... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
general managers. I was shocked by how quickly I was moved into real responsibility.” Although there are many options for LDP design and implementation, Fitzpatrick insists that a good one “doesn’t need to be super-complicated. But it... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges “Water is a human right. It’s shocking that the United States did not sign on to the 2010 United Nations Proclamation on Water and Sanitation, but... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
patients after they leave the hospital, during what is called their “post-acute care.” Many seniors don’t simply return to life as normal. They first need to go to a nursing home or rehab center or schedule a visiting nurse. As a medical student, Hu was View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS
me. Slowly but surely though, at HBS I started to get the entrepreneurship bug. I’d be sitting in class thinking about the decisions I would make in the case protagonist’s shoes and realize with total shock that I would want to be in that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
three years' service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries' market-oriented reformers. Sachs's methods are often called “shock treatment,” but Djelic begs to differ. “It's not shock treatment,” he declares. “It's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons