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- 2016
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more... View Details
Keywords: Tourism; Latin America; Business History; Sustainable Strategy; Sustainability; Nonprofit; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Entrepreneurship; History; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Costa Rica
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-136, June 2016.
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
for social investors. These are people who put their money where their mouth isand they pay a very significant price.— Sam Hayes Hayes related an experience as a member of a Swarthmore College investment committee, which was responsible for some $500 million in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
turnarounds. Thus, Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly argued that “firms must pay close attention both to their resource endowment and to the ability of their managers to extract value." The tale... View Details
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
they do it.” The color of money is mostly white The total share of assets managed by minority-owned firms in 2021 was 1.4 percent, according to Lerner, while minorities that year made up over 40 percent of the population. Lerner and... View Details
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
them to be more intuitive and divergent thinkers. Either you have it or you don't. But does research really support this idea? Our research confirms others' work that creativity skills are not simply genetic traits endowed at birth, but... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-043.pdf An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
Americans, of the virtues of limited government, and as a result it has the smallest and least intrusive central administration of any major American university and is undistinguished in central planning. Its faculties and schools defend their autonomy and (the rich... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
investment management themselves. Sensing this demand, which is what they do best, investment banks are now creating funds, which then are invested in other funds. This is the big new thing, the fund of funds. People who View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
Apple. Amelio had attempted to negotiate a similar arrangement with Gates and had failed. Second, Steve was able to endow the work of others with meaning as no one else at Apple could. Fred Anderson, who was hired as chief financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
on a farsighted version of strong dominance (cf., Roth and Postlewaite, 1977) if no individual is indifferent between his endowment and the endowment of someone else. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
blurring by retailers have generally increased both inventory levels and gross profit dollars across retail segments. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-078.pdf New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne