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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

customers can relax." In contrast, the bookselling industry itself is a case study in competitiveness, with firms poised to pounce on every customer desire and need. Back in 1991, for instance, DiRomualdo sensed there was an opportunity... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

School.How do you set up an IT governance committee? A company that decides it needs board-level IT oversight must do three things: Select the appropriate members and the chairman, determine the group's relationship to the audit... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has taken notice, aggressively funding... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

visualize and communicate a wide range of patient outcomes and cost for three forms of prostate cancer treatment. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51627 Firm Selection and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies quality choice in a model where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The Making of a School

. . And I don’t care to give a half a million, either. But if by giving five million dollars I could have the privilege of building the whole School, I should like to do it.” The prominent New York firm of McKim, Mead & White, architects... View Details
Keywords: George Bates MBA '25; Dean Wallace Donham; George F. Baker; Bishop William Lawrence; Lawrence Lowell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

and users can choose to outsource or select an alternative service provider.7 Let's look at each of these conditions in turn. The first condition states that a constituent finds value in the firm's outputs. Who satisfies this definition?... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2014
  • News

Innovating for International Aid

jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 12 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

active ingredients for anti-nausea drugs, even the drug inside an EpiPen. There were also more mundane items like milking machine parts and telescopic gunsights for rifles. The careful selection avoided high-profile items like smartphones... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Sparking Internet Commerce

ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

are significantly different to the inter-industry vertical FDI visible at the two-digit level. These subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage considerations in traditional models, where firms locate their low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy literature by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

Hold-to-Maturity Accounting By: Stafford, Erik Abstract—Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

The book covers key trends and describes how different firms have coped with shifting pressures. It concludes with an assessment of where equity research is headed in emerging markets and the industry's future challenges. Entrepreneurship... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

capital for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. The results suggest significant variation across firms and financial instruments. Large firms and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

data in percentage form (common-size balance sheets) and other selected financial ratios for a set of 12 unidentified firms from 12 different industries (all 12 companies are listed on the Australian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne