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  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

disclosures hit the headlines. For this reason, it is perhaps a good time to solicit creative ideas about how leading business schools that mint a high proportion of senior executives in large organizations can identify and weed out candidates whose personal values... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Alumni Books

risks associated with outsourcing; and using “shadow pricing” to compare public- and private-sector costs for services. Us + Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference by Todd L. Pittinsky (PhDOB 2001) (Harvard Business Review Press)... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

direct-selling cosmetics company involved in emerging markets exhibits significant foreign exchange risk exposure and profitability swings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Students must review the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

to be innovative, really providing service to customers and attracting top talent. They are now becoming utilities, facing an incredible amount of regulation largely because of their own conduct failures. Third, they could reduce risk... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

conservation for climate risk reduction. Although more comprehensive research programs to answer these questions are needed, some insights are emerging. Integrating two or more behavior change approaches that target multiple,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

buy,” Kaplan says. They can then start assembling the other elements of the ecosystem—for example, farmers, feed and irrigation companies, local banks and insurance companies, nonprofits, and community leaders. In that process, it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

standard forecasting regressions reveal that increases in p*t lead to economic downturns. Second, disaster risk is priced in the cross section of U.S. equity returns. A zero-cost equity portfolio with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

reflected by revenue-neutral taxes: a carbon emissions tax, a security-of-supply tax, a catastrophe insurance tax, and even a local emissions abatement tax," he says. "While people hate the thought of paying more taxes, we are in truth... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is how property View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

the cultural differences between immigrants and natives. These results indicate that diversity might be economically beneficial but politically hard to manage. Harvard Business School Case 218-127 Introduction to Life Settlements Life View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

Tingle on board, they made great use of their summer and built the Harlem Capital platform, taking that work into their second year at HBS. The risk paid off and by graduation in 2019, they were both able to make Managing Partner at... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

increase the cost of capital, reduce the availability of external finance, and lower firm-level investment. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-016_dffd8931-f668-4e0c-80d1-0560cea51e19.pdf How Does View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon who faces an investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2011
  • What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

determine the behavior of management or does the behavior of management determine our value system? (from Athan Sunderland), "Is (our) organization a place where balanced risks can be taken without causing too much career... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

through the region, collecting personal stories and rare and authentic home recipes that bring to life the history, heritage, and changing landscape of Dali. Faculty Books The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

This result is robust across different geographic regions and industries and holds for U.S. and non-U.S. lenders, including those with little direct exposure to the U.S. economy. Local EME lenders do not offset the foreign bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

be more forgiving in that it can fit a wide range of body types. Products like men's dress shirts and women's hosiery, which have consistent, known sizing, are also amenable to online buying. Basic garments are typically relatively inexpensive, further contributing to... View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
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