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  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

there, I became interested in the business side of things, so I decided to apply to b-school and was shocked when I was accepted into HBS! Summer Internship: Design Operations Lead at Toast in Boston Little one’s favorites: Elephant and... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

three of us that if we didn't get the job, we had to leave the company. Which was really shocking to me. You know, I, I kind of said, "Look, you're kidding, right?" DM: [laughs] JI: He said, "No, that's the way I want it." And I said,... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

with the VW Touareg and was partially manufactured in VW's Bratislava, Slovakia plant. Then, as if that were not enough, Wiedeking shocked the investment world once again by purchasing roughly a 20 percent stake in VW, which led to major... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

and the recent allegations against the Firm's former Managing Director, Rajat Gupta. Three months earlier Senior Partner, Anil Kumar, plead guilty to providing confidential information about McKinsey clients he served to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous demand shocks and partially neglect the endogenous investment responses of their competitors. Formal estimation of the model confirms that both types of expectational errors are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Competitiveness at Risk

was not shocked by that figure, but its underlying components gave us a new perspective. Survey respondents were more pessimistic about the future of American living standards than about companies’ prospects. Alumni appear to believe that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

capital. Additionally, it makes the company highly vulnerable to technological changes and other types of shocks. In a distributed business ecosystem, a firm can scale more easily and respond to shocks by leveraging capabilities provided... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

(Fictive Press) It’s 1957 in the fictional Canadian province of Superior. In the span of just a few days in November, the lives of several high-level government officials and a colorful cast of “destitutes” are about to change forever as wrongdoings lead to View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-101.pdf Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets Authors:Zacharias Sautner and Belén Villalonga Abstract We exploit an exogenous shock to corporate ownership structures created by a recent tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models suggest that boards design incentive contracts that filter out... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is limited in the short run, so these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

where that motion took him."9 Tony's crime is a self-administered shock treatment. It wakes him up and makes him feel alive. The prospect of living two lives—as the dutiful Tony and as a crook—thrills him. In an odd way Tony's... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

rationale for acquiring Whole Foods. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-041 Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

difficulty of maintaining these over time, and as circumstances changed. Salvaj: The mistakes provided opportunities for these pioneers to display their confidence and to project self-assurance. They have been able to withstand shocks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous development and adoption of technologies can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

patterns. We present a model where beliefs determine the types of contracts that firms offer and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an individual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Lords of Strategy

those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are merely the latest View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

companies, the companies that hire them, the types of problems that economists are currently working on, and the areas of academic research that have emerged in relation to these problems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55011... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman