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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
shift from risk-averse studios to smaller, independent entities. He believes the low quality of recent movies is responsible in part for decreasing box office receipts, a situation that he says will correct itself as smaller producers... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
controlling for the potential effect of cultural norms. China provides a good research lab since it combines great heterogeneity in institutional development across the Chinese provinces with homogeneity in cultural norms, law, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have gone up after SOX, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
kids being kids, he often had to negotiate peace on the field. “I had to keep people from fighting,” he says, “because I couldn’t fight everyone.” Eamer is also even-keeled, a quality that is perhaps equal parts nature and nurture. While... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
scribe started. Bob was really bad at keeping his laughter under control (he sat to my right, so I was flattered). 1981A’s Rick Johansen orchestrated a prank one day in the first semester (late 1979) on all the professors we had that day.... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
other sources of entrepreneurial influence: we find that peer influences are strongest for those who have less exposure to entrepreneurship in other aspects of their lives. Family Control of Firms and Industries Authors: Belén Villalonga... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrating its control in the hands of a single member of the firm, the three founders agreed to create a series of overlapping funds. Each general partner could then take responsibility for running one of them, with input from his... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does not appear that either property and casualty insurers or open-end municipal mutual funds were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
control this risk, the authors write, but you can and should plan for it. They offer three steps to help you survive a corporate scandal. 1. Be forthright. Transparency and full disclosure are key to overcoming the stigma. Executive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
refuse to accept the trivialization of black life and justification of social controls like the persistent shadow of police brutality and lethality. They seek to challenge a legal system that has failed to provide justice for too many... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Eli Lilly Canada, the Controller and Treasurer at Eli Lilly and Company and Chief Financial Officer at Cardinal Health. Lara Hodgson MBA ’98, Harvard University; BS, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Lara is the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
world of the unexpected. Think of crisis management. It's very important in crisis management not to fall into a comfortable pattern because you may be misperceiving the data. Psychologists talk about the initial hypothesis problem: In a crisis, in your eagerness to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
people’s expectations of self-scheduling could forever change work routines. As work continues to be more digitally enabled, and uncertainty shows no signs of abating, flexibility separates winners from losers. People might work harder and longer hours, but they want... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Customers who came in to buy from the “value offerings” were buying from the breakfast menu. Average checks and quality scores were up. It was even getting more of the millennial market to come into its restaurants. “It was kind of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to excel at what I did, View Details