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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable by committing mistakes while learning something new. In Flying Without a Net, Thomas DeLong explains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to liquidate their holdings at the first sign of distress. The plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of 2008 also forced the Icelandic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
influencing actions rather than dictating them. Both must be brave enough to make themselves vulnerable and admit mistakes. In addition, teachers lead and leaders teach. Again, this may not be obvious, but think about how teachers model... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
issue of making it available to patients across the world, much as it did for its blockbuster HIV/AIDS antiretrovirals. For Erik Musalem, the new general manager of Gilead Mexico, the challenge was complicated by operating in a middle-income country, where Gilead’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
problems that need attention at the state and local level. “Prisons, the foster system, access to healthcare—state and local leaders can have a huge impact, in a positive way, on the most vulnerable populations,” she says. “All the press... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
the marketing and economics literature. We show that in the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions typically used in conventional dynamic panel data methods become vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
vulnerabilities that left Mexico exposed to a sudden change in investor appetite for Mexican securities in 1994. Political violence in Mexico and changes in monetary policy in the United States then led to radical changes in investor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
are used only once or twice in a person’s lifetime—a far different business opportunity than the one presented by drugs that treat chronic diseases. In addition, governments are the major purchaser of many vaccinations, effectively capping prices, and vaccines are... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
exploitation tends to drive out exploration, rendering organizations rigid and vulnerable to environmental change. Drawing on the Carnegie School, we propose a model where perturbation moderates the relationship between exploitation and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
two comparison groups did not differ significantly from each other. These findings suggest that a technology-based resilience intervention, which employs a low-touch, cost-effective, easily scalable intervention format, can successfully improve resilience among View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
were at the time one and four, to Brazil. And I think about the risk they took and the risks that I took to do that job. One is I certainly think I made a better second impression, but I think that I revealed my authenticity and I revealed my View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
financial system was left more vulnerable than ever to a major shock.” Given this record of regulatory failure and neglect, he concludes that the current financial crisis wasn’t an unforeseeable accident. Wall Street wasn’t a victim, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
wrestle in their journals with the bank’s balance between doing well and doing good, even as they acknowledge that CB’s clients are better off than they would be without the loans. “When you are dealing with a more vulnerable and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
directly vulnerability to multi-homing, which happens when users form ties with two or more competing platforms network bridging, which allows platforms to leverage users and data from one network in another network When entrepreneurs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
Latinx students from vulnerable communities in Chicago’s most prestigious high schools. DA CREW—named by the first cohort of mentees—has supported over 25 students (grades nine-12) since fall 2019. Additionally, Lee partnered with ATLAS... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
items in your category—think drywall for example." For retailers looking for immediate advice, the book details three courses of action to help them. As the threats are not identical across all retail segments, step one is to assess their own strengths and View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
and Stephanie van SiceHarvard Business School Case 611-002 Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying for greenhouse gas regulations. A world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Developing infrastructure to identify and perform 3-way as well as 2-way exchanges will have a substantial effect on the number of transplants, and will help the most vulnerable patients. Larger than 3-way exchanges have much smaller... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
as well as a relatively new handset technology. The capital intensity made the company vulnerable to external markets. Taken separately, these risks were manageable. Taken together, they added up to failure. The personal lessons ran even... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios