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- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
given its popularity, I’d suggest they combine a newsletter strategy and opinion for more in-depth audio. That would allow them to gain more of the market via the new medium, without the extensive investment required for video. They could... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
original. Cary's 1695 Essay had indeed been cumulatively translated three times (into French in 1755, Italian in 1757-58, and German in 1788). The Italian and German translators never even returned to the original English edition, and the work View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/BPEA/Fall-2014/Fall2014BPEA_Weinzierl.pdf?la=en Working Papers Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
of leaders who have been in the space for decades, reminding the hundreds of future leaders in attendance that regardless of the political landscape, this movement has been growing for decades and has gained significant support, so we... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
criteria and approximately maximizes medical efficiency, i.e., life year gains from transplant, while simultaneously enforcing selected fairness constraints. Among the several case studies we present employing our method, one case study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
manufacturing job. “The operations of a manufacturing business are very different from a capital business,” he adds. “Frankly, I’m still learning a lot every day.” And he’s putting that new knowledge into action. Last November, the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
departures of senior partners; and (c) the departures of senior partners have negative effects on the ability of funds to raise additional capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50943 Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
systemic problems that lie beyond the capacity of any single social enterprise or organization. Gain insights into how different sectors can work together towards common goals, understanding the roles of policy, business, and non-profit... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
gain drawing from a qualitative study of 90 U.S.-based employees of a Japanese organization following a company-wide English language mandate. These native English-speaking employees believed that the mandate elevated their worth in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - HBS Online
Frameworks of Business Strategy 02 DEC 2024 | The Parlor Room Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee joins host Chris Linnane to provide a unique insight into how companies can gain and sustain competitive advantage with... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much of that same View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
which raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital only to get wiped out in the dotcom bust. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were making expensive bets well before Silicon Valley existed, says Alex Lazarow. Alex... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
nineteenth century, showed it gained momentum from the 1960s, and resulted in a mainstreaming of sustainability rhetoric, and sometimes practice, in large corporations from the 1980s, primarily in Western developed countries. A more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
analyze something quickly and figure out what needs to be done." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Work in a real business for a while, gain some experience and expertise, be patient and pay your dues. And don't worry too much about money on the front... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
competitive advantage because trust can increase the gains from trade for firms and their suppliers. In this study, we document a particular type of competitive advantage conferred by trust. Using adoption rates of a new product as a case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
opposite: in today’s world, capital is mobile. If American companies cannot employ the best talent in the United States, they have two choices: risk becoming less competitive in an intensively competitive world; or locate your View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman