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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large number of analysts who kept... View Details
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
process posing other more interesting propositions for consideration. Tony Wanless emphasized the importance of knowing the way leaders learn from experience, suggesting the need for "a synthesis of thinking that adds value to the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached from the View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
guy” in health care operations? The question had long intrigued him. Before coming to HBS through the 2+2 program, Josh had fulfilled internships and fulltime career roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Three years of undergraduate study at Bentley College had... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and Australia; and industries include automotive, hospitality, real estate, manufacturing, and finance. Their biggest concerns fell into five categories: Cash flow and liquidity. “Payments [were] not coming in, but we had to make our... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
be subtle, but real. —Professor James Hesket Changes in organizations, according to respondents, will be subtle, but real. Perhaps the most interesting opinions on this topic were set forth by Niklas Arvidsson: "What will be the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It was also found that quit rates varied among and within industries. For example, JetBlue’s quit rate was twice as high as Southwest Airlines’. Another important influence... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
landscape. Key concepts include: Although property rights protections for investors in developing nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
computer to access data stored on another and to interact with that information. As he publicized his innovation among his fellow employees and across the computing community, people admired the quality of his work. In fact, in head-to-head comparisons, his software... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
is that something needs to be done in neighborhoods like Brightmoor, that the city can’t thrive without that. That’s the biggest question that comes with renewed interest in Detroit real estate: Will... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
stall a company’s scaling efforts. To prevent this from happening, companies must make core processes like recruiting, interviewing, and development a real priority in daily practice. As Aristotle emphasized a long time ago, “Excellence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
areas of the economy where there has been "quiet, unheralded change." "The advent of the microprocessor in the early 1980s was more the kind of quiet change that an entrepreneur should keep his or her eye out for," he says. "I'd argue that the View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
July 29. While it is a drama, it was also created to reflect the actual challenges women face in working on the real Wall Street. Munger, Mandelli, and Herbert were among a group of veteran Wall Street women invited in spring 2015 to meet... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Accounting Review Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting By: Srinivasan, Suraj, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne