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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
ultimately did get out, it went in too many directions and not to those who most needed it. I agreed with that worry. I had, by pure chance, seen articles documenting some of the delays in disbursing funds to the Sandy Hook survivors. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
effect that is strongest when recalls are in the same product area as innovation activity. A one standard deviation increase in the number of proximate focal firm recalls implies more than a one-year delay in minor innovation. However,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
delayed the effective restructuring. “Right now the index funds are saying [that they] are not here to directly intervene in boards,” says Viceira. “Instead, they are promoting better corporate governance, voting for rules that make... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
month if they purchased a certain amount of healthy food, recorded by purchase receipts. But the reward is delayed until the end of the month, decreasing the likelihood it will work. Why? Blame the behavioral economic principle of... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
markets are too great to pass up or delay need to appreciate and respond to the challenges posed by institutional voids. Emerging markets are so tough to crack that companies are highly unlikely to get their strategies right the first... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
than a few hearts and minds. (Arguments used for denying and delaying the remaining funding often centered around the Egyptian government's lack of stability and what some saw as the EAEF's slow pace of investment.) "I started to make... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky asset’s return distribution or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
creates jobs back here. It’s not a matter of us or them “winning.” Fewer people will be employed in the United States if we don’t investigate what’s happening in Asia and the Middle East. That’s where the markets are now. One issue that’s dogged you recently is a... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
caused the medical establishment to radically reverse its position. Parents were now warned that delaying the introduction of these types of foods increased a baby's risk of food allergies. Adeo Health Science was ready, with patents... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
"unraveled" and experienced transactions at dispersed and apparently inefficiently early times. Often these markets develop institutions to coordinate and delay the timing of transactions. However it has proved difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
IGNIA and a VC firm. “Our ultimate goal is improving society. If it were just to make money, we’d do things like try to delay competition,” he says. “And if [improving society] is the ultimate goal, you need to create industries. And if... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
However it proved necessary to adopt policies that would allow employers to safely delay hiring and coordinate on using the clearinghouse. The market for gastroenterologists provides a case study of market failures, the way a centralized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps ignored by an inattentive clerk or... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
enclosure and conjured up a storm of powdery snow inside. Huddled in his sleeping bag wearing all his clothing, Moore fretted quietly about the terrain they would encounter above. The expedition had been plagued throughout by delays and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
likely to be licensed before patent grant and shortly after 18-month publication. Licensing delays are reduced by about 10 months, on average, after AIPA's enactment. These findings suggest a hitherto unexplored benefit of the patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover, local governments can succeed in transferring value to local firms and influencing global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
delay implementation of the Rule in response to the Business Roundtable challenge. We also examine intra-day returns and find that the value loss occurred just after the SEC's announcement on October 4. We find similar results on July 22,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
transportation system. Like cars and taxis, PRT vehicles carried small groups—often just a single passenger—with no need to wait for a shared vehicle to arrive or for others to board. Yet PRT followed train systems in using an exclusive right of way that avoided View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace