Independent Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Inspection Panel for purposes of evaluation and redress. Taken as a whole, however, these successes have been decidedly limited. In particular, persistent problems in the timing, scope, content, and quality of consultation processes have often limited their View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

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1.12 Clearance for Return | MBA

circumstances the student may continue in or return to residence or enrollment. HBS also may independently decide that, based on its observations or other information it has about a student, it should initiate the process of consultation... View Details

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Danelle Radney

strategic plan for the school’s innovative work-study program. “The Social Enterprise Initiative made it possible by matching my salary so that I could afford to live in New York.” In her EC year, Danelle fulfilled an Independent Student... View Details

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Technology Choice and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

14 Dec 2017
News

Making Movies Is a Class Act

Beyda) Sally Wood (photo by Russ Campbell) Joe Abrams (photo by David Beyda) Sally Wood (photo by Russ Campbell) Abrams served in various executive capacities at CBS, Columbia, MGM, and ABC, before setting up his own consulting business... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

too volatile given the mean reversion in earnings. We show that high current ship earnings are associated with high secondhand ship prices and heightened industry investment in fleet capacity but forecast low future returns. We propose... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

months, three of the four tire manufacturers there ceased to exist as independent corporations. In this excerpt from "From Community of Innovation to Community of Inertia: The Rise and Fall of the Akron Tire Cluster," Sull... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity to adopt external knowledge and make internal inventions. We also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

but is also necessary to use tie-breaking for schools whose capacity is sufficient to accommodate some but not all students of a given priority class. We analyze a model that encompasses one-sided and two-sided matching models. We first... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

universally recognized symbol was three golden balls. In twenty-first century China, where the demand for investment capital exceeds the capacity of the nation’s state-controlled financial sector, pawnshops and other informal sources of... View Details

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

the company? The 409a is an independent valuation of common shares. But it’s also a critical metric in determining your equity grant price and future tax implications if and when you decide to sell your shares. 2. Plan for Pivotal Job... View Details

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

The trend is independent from the Rust Belt overseas job migration that occurred in the same timeframe, the researchers note. “We've always known bigger cities have more patents, even on a per capita basis, than smaller cities,” Kerr... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

Totally eliminating friction is unrealistic on the battlefield and at the bargaining table. In both instances, you need the authority and the emotional steadiness to cope in spite of uncertainty. Strategy is further complicated by the fact that the other parties are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

of the ascending chairman and his constituents. That is, a change in chairmanship can only occur if the incumbent retires or is voted out--both of which are entirely independent of what is currently happening in the ascending chairman's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

worldwide. The organization is at a crossroads as it attempts to reach the ambitious goal of serving 10% of the 20 million Egyptians living in poverty by 2023, while at the same time developing the local NGO capacity to serve the... View Details