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- 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23
Discussion of new model of social enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811053-PDF-ENG Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland Robert C. Pozen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
to the challenge. Think of it as a new strategic initiative facing huge execution challenges. These require senior management to get the best information they can about barriers to execution, and it requires trust and commitment. That... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds Authors:John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to transformative regulatory changes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture philanthropy View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
office-but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and accomplish more at work. The good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
has to retail shopping. Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the M.S./M.B.A. program in life sciences at Harvard Business School. He is also Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com Harvard Business School Case 309-060 Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
evolved in some organizations into policies that gave employees much more information about the activities of the enterprise and more voice in determining what they felt they needed to know. Vineet Nayar, vice chairman and joint managing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors faced unprecedented challenges. Vital supplies such as facemasks and cotton swabs were in short supply. New protocols had to be developed to isolate infected patients. Treating patients... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did Hong Kong deny Alibaba's requests to list dual-class shares or to allow its partners to nominate a majority of the board of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
private firms (firms incorporated before 1985). Sectors dominated by state-owned and traditional private firms before 1988-1990, with assets, sales, and profits representing shares higher than 50%, generally remained so in 2005. The exception to this broad pattern is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace