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- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract Reaching-for-yield-the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy with the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Design Thinking and Innovation equips current and... View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
depressed, or concerned.” But these standards are merely guidelines, not laws. “These are not really regulations,” Deshpandé says. “They’re suggestions.” That leaves WOW organizers concerned that cream manufacturers can use questionable marketing tactics to View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
frictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51088 forthcoming The Accounting Review Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence By: Khan, Mozaffar N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Liang Tan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
(DPI), a leading pan-African private equity firm based in London with over $3.1 B under management; and Victor Williams (MBA 1998), CEO of NBA Africa, which is transforming Africa’s profile in the world of global sports. He is the former head of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Corps Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Millennium Challenge Corporation New Profit New Sector Alliance NewSchools Venture Fund New York City Public Schools New York Public Radio Nonprofit... View Details
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Turnarounds and Transformation (also listed under Organizational Behavior) Ranjay Gulati Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Venture Capital and Private Equity Jo Tango Archie L. Jones Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Finance Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16922 Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Abstract This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
profits continued to be an important source of funds for the British merchant groups, after 1870 they also drew substantially on outside funds to finance expansion into new activities. Partners and directors of the merchant houses did not... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
declared bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. “All stakeholders must work together to make GM's bankruptcy filing a comma rather than a period in the storied history of this American corporate icon." -Daniel Heller Its future appears... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
information. We implement an experiment where senders are required to report their private information truthfully but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find that senders use complex disclosure more than half the time. Most of this obfuscation is View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Possibilities Frontier, and Trade Free E-Book How to Be a Purpose-Driven, Global Business Professional This guide will equip you with the skills needed to define your purpose, make the case for corporate social responsibility to internal... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna