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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
structure, making data collection difficult and delaying the alarm bells that signal an oncoming crisis. Ivashina points to the fact that no one understood the scope of the exposure banks had to subprime mortgages in 2008 until it was too... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Abstract—Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog
In each class, we ask students to prepare by understanding what is happening and why. What are the proximate and root causes of why this company is facing the situations articulated in the case? What signals are appearing that suggest the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
that have happened in the media business over the past three-plus decades," McGee said over coffee in Spangler Grill during a visit to campus last spring, noting that when he joined HBO it was a single network with fewer than three million subscribers. "Our satellite... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
What was the inspiration behind Reveal? “The inspiration for Reveal happened in 2009 during my second year at HBS. I got an illness called GBS (Guillain-Barré Syndrome) that stripped the protein sheaths around my nerves so they couldn’t take View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
the bills due to a vested political interest in their outcomes. Using this model, the researchers discovered a phenomenon undetected by markets: After passage of such signal legislation, firms in the affected industries yielded abnormally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
signal to people that there will be demand in the future and things are going to get better. The way to send that signal, in his view, was through deficit spending. If the government borrowed heavily and spent the money, that would send a... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
degree credentials and work experience as proxies for competencies in entry-level recruitment, employers signal the wrong focus to educators and young people. As a result, educators and students prioritize schooling over skilling,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
that many companies don’t do much after the program,” she says. “Bring participants together, perhaps quarterly or at least twice a year, to swap stories and trade ideas. These sessions not only reinforce bonding, but signal to everyone... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
and banks that had nearly collapsed have been cleaned up and are once again fueling the economy. In late 2023, Greece’s credit rating was bumped from junk to investment grade for the first time since 2010, signaling to foreign investors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
development rendering some knowledge obsolete and a global knowledge explosion democratizing access to the rest. Titles are losing their signaling value. Autocrats of the breakfast table (a book title 150 years ago) get pushback from... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
said. "If you look at companies like Cisco and others that depend less on R&D, you'll see they have taken a different model in the new economy. They essentially said, 'We will use the innovation in the marketplace, and we will View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: The aspirations and energy are important. But getting these big plans into action requires not just new ideas or the capital to support them—but a clear View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
relationship between the successful use of humor and status is mediated by perceptions of confidence and competence. The successful use of humor signals confidence and competence, which in turn increases the joke teller’s status.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy" signal and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
innovate were bright spots and signals of important trends for the future. “Technology companies with the capabilities and courage to innovate were bright spots and signals of important trends for the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
their stuff embarrasses them. Their Range Rovers no longer tell the world that they are sophisticated town and country socialites. There are simply too many of them on the road to offer much social status. Worse, they now signal the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
over.” A few years ago, the HBS Old Boys adopted “golden oldies” rules where older players wear gold-colored shorts to signal they are not to be tackled. Tom Avery is thankful for those rules. “Ten years ago, on our tour to Argentina, I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
the sweet spots. A systematic application of such a method also helps create a credible signal to the other side of the market that provides entrepreneurial capital. Such signals are essential for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
itself (to send a useful signal to constituencies); c) avoiding (or making) statements that inflame (or mollify) the other side's internal opponents; d) helping the other side attractively frame the deal for Level II acceptability; e)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel