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- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
development projects around the globe. The study, by Harvard Law School student Ashwin Kaja and HBS professor Eric Werker, is detailed in the working paper "Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank" [PDF]. Theirs is the first... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social worker, "is really one of the most subversive pieces of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
billion people, $1 to $3 a day; and 3) Extreme poverty: 1 billion people, less than $1 a day. Next, consider the roles of various groups in the value-creation relationship: consumers, coproducers, and clients. Specific strategies work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Lawrence noted years ago, is "the vehicle by which a chunk of reality is brought into the classroom to be worked over by the class and the instructor." Most cases require students to assume the role of the protagonist and to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/yearbook Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Abstract Two trends are likely to define the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
public engagement has been strong and immediate. Clearly, this is a new frontier for the financial services sector—and the industry’s regulators are also operating without a roadmap. We need to stop arguing about more versus less financial regulation and begin the hard... View Details
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Normally, the Olympic Games are a positive... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Accounting for almost 30 percent of world... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
as much from failure as it does from success. Innovators learn from failure: Understanding what doesn't work may be at least as important as understanding what does, provided these failures are revealed early in a project and are swiftly... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
variation is never more than four times the average. The second test reflects a manufacturer whose concern is maintaining inventories at a level appropriate for its high-volume, low-variability SKUs — say three weeks of demand. That means much lower inventories in... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms with Sari Pekkala Kerr of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
to lower their prices by paying less for their tomatoes. We took a different approach and concentrated on quality." This meant going to the start of the supply chain: the tomato farmers. ("You can't put the brand on it, get the premium, and then View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
partners to work together in making the tough decisions and taking the steps needed. Success will depend on leaders who are able to stabilize the company as they identify and exploit opportunities, find new market niches, create... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
cannot be accumulated at the top of the company and distributed to those projects or programs in which it will yield the greatest strategic advantage. It resides in the heads of individuals at all levels and is embedded in the relationships of View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Belarus, on the other hand, has tried to draw itself closer than any other former Soviet republic to Russia. Belarus is, as HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal writes in a new working paper, "the quintessential status quo state in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
than the average U.S. board. Stock returns around M&A announcements and board attendance are also higher in founder-director firms compared to non-founder firms. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1663905 Error's Lessons: The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne