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  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman and CEO, and president... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

says Ian Larkin, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "You should see the angry e-mails I get from students when they find out that a job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 04 Dec 2017
  • News

How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

  • December 1999 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Avon Products China (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jennifer Gui
In April 1998, when the Chinese central government bans all forms of direct selling in China in April 1998, executives at Avon China must decide how to respond. The first direct sales company to enter China after its opening to outsiders, Avon sparked widespread... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Sales; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Market Participation; China
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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Cross‐firm Return Predictability and Accounting Quality

By: Wen Chen, Mozaffar Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
We test the hypothesis that if poor accounting quality (AQ) is associated with poor investor understanding of firms’ revenue and cost structures, then poor AQ stocks likely respond more slowly than good AQ stocks to new non‐idiosyncratic information that affects both... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Quality; Earnings Quality; Stock Returns; Investment Strategy; Accounting; Business Earnings; Quality; Investment Return; Investment; Strategy
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  • May 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; United States; Canada
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  • Article

MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

By: Robert C. Merton

Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
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  • 04 Jun 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

Summing Up The Subscription Model: Down but Not Out Just as manufacturing organizations are once again adopting a subscription model as a means of pricing product-service packages marketed as solutions, it appears that Internet-based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2016
  • Article

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin
Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system worldwide. In light of this commercial success and certain disputed business practices, Android has come under substantial attention from competition authorities. We present key... View Details
Keywords: Android; Antitrust; Competition Policy; Exclusion; Mobile Communication Devices; Remedies; Tying; Technology Platform; Competition; Monopoly; Policy; Mobile Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Differing governance systems. In the Anglo-Saxon system, capital markets play a key role; in the German, Japanese, and European systems, banks play a more important role; in emerging markets, business groups... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 2008
  • Casebook

The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

By: Rawi Abdelal
This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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  • September 2022
  • Background Note

On CUE: The Quest for Optimal Customer Unit Economics

By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
Startups are often evaluated by how well they perform on unit economics, defined as the ratio of a customer’s lifetime value (LTV) to acquisition costs (CAC). A common target for unit economics, advocated by many VCs and analysts, is 3:1 (i.e., LTV/CAC=3). While there... View Details
Keywords: Unit Economics; Business Startups; Performance Evaluation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Analysis
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  • 08 Jul 2019
  • News

When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

  • Web

Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

research in the region. “These are fascinating markets with big opportunities,” Ivashina says. “For students who come from the United States or Europe, these cases expose them to something new and test their understanding of View Details
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

  PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly... View Details
  • Web

News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity

Professor Jan Hammond, chief marketing & communications officer Brian Kenny, and chief inclusion & diversity officer Terrill Drake. Vehement Arguments’: Romney Talks Importance of Free Speech at Harvard View Details