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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
product be engineered under current specifications to an acceptable cost of goods and retail price point? These decisions had to be made soon so that the product could be launched to meet the back to school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 309-029 HNA Group, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, was positioning itself to go global and make a mark for itself as the largest private airline in China. Positioned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Institute; Amir Kermani, an assistant professor at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley; and Carlo Sommavilla, a doctoral student at the Swiss Finance Institute. “Some managers appear to free-ride on the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
scholars, and business historians. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones%20%20Friedman%20Flyer.pdf The Future of Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch ed. Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming This book is a collection of chapters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—Can governments increase private savings by taxing savings up front instead of in retirement? Roth 401(k) contributions are not tax-deductible in the contribution year, but withdrawals in... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
advertising. “Government is a giant customer. They buy a lot of stuff” Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss explores this strategy pivot in a new case on Bigbelly, co-written with case researcher Christine Snively, that looks... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S., achievement motivation is positively related to customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
diversified since liberalization and since broad-based corporate governance reforms were implemented goes expressly against the prediction of prior schools of thought about business groups. We argue that the conventional wisdom about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards and business View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
example of the growing number of social entrepreneurs whose credo is “putting purpose before profit,” as Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and serial entrepreneur Reza Satchu chronicles in a 2024 case study, “Flashfood: The Magic of... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
of inflation increases demand for cost of living adjustments. Frames that highlight flexibility, control, and investment significantly reduce annuitization. A majority of respondents prefer to receive an extra "bonus" payment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives was co-edited by Asli M. Colpan, of the Kyoto University, Graduate School of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
players—whom he uses in unusual positions and unconventional formations—have helped the Patriots maintain a high level of play year after year, despite their typically low draft position. A great manager can “coach up” a player’s... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
School Case 807-033 Part of a 3-case series in which students get to see the unfolding of due diligence on private equity (buy out) deal. In this, the A case, the deal team has negotiated a letter of intent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
philanthropy. We have to take care of all stakeholders—I say customers, vendors, employees, shareholders, and the society in which you work. You can't produce a bad quality and high cost product and then say, 'I go to the temple and pray'... View Details