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- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
think hard about partner selection, deal structuring, and operational decisions when expropriation is a key risk. Second, it's an instructive example for economics and legal scholars who have begun to emphasize the role of institutions in determining the nature of... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
foreign firms. In the United States, government officials have attempted to shift food-safety efforts to prevention with the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011. One result: Produce is now subject to preventative controls, including more raw View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
serving on political councils, political legacy, and financial resources-affect the likelihood of firms issuing CSR reports. Second, we focus on the symbolic nature of CSR reporting and how variance in the risk of government monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
the paper: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042673 Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lincoln Electric Company, from the brink of financial ruin to record sales and profits. The book is full of out-of-the-box ideas, shrewd business wisdom, and unorthodox techniques. As Hastings stated, “I didn’t write this book to teach... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
(0.74%). Even after controlling for filers' demographic factors and self-revealed savings intent, the likelihood of tax-site savings was 5.5 percentage points higher at treatment sites as compared with control sites. In contrast to the take up of many View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
investment in a nonprofit was handled strategically it would yield a greater impact for the people served. In an organization with compelling leadership, vision, and evidence of outcomes that were making a material difference in the lives... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We didn't have a lot of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
more stereotypic assumptions. From a strictly economic perspective, companies with more women in senior leadership and board positions, on average, financially outperform those with fewer according to Catalyst’s research. Organizations... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
stable mechanism is Pareto-optimal if and only if it prevents unravelling. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-068.pdf Cases & Course Materials Amazon Web Services Harvard Business School Case 609-048 Considers the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
is lower than that of peers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1346397 The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity By: Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—One of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
financial need who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to serving Black and African American, Latinx, and other marginalized communities of color prior to enrolling at HBS. The School’s Doctoral Programs is committed to build a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine markets (i.e., the variable time lag... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
exercise (Negotiation Strategy Simulation)—illuminate how through a thoughtful process of probing and testing, a negotiator may determine whether the other party tends to be cooperative or competitive. The material also demonstrates how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
all the teaching materials for the course. The leadership intelligence module, FIELD 1, is defined by small-group exercises that help students make the transition from being outstanding individual performers to performing as leaders... View Details