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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
on moral grounds, since they don’t feel they did anything wrong. The problem is a big one for stock photo agencies—not just because of loss of revenue but also because unchecked abuse cuts into future business by motivating some violators... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web platform through which Harvard and MIT, and subsequently dozens more "partner"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for aggressively growing our U.S.-based manufacturing operations, while incorporating a global mindset and offering our customers a true international capability.” With technology leveling the playing field, CGM can function as a globally... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
The Tokyo Stock Exchange Survey David F. Hawkins and Jin YamamotoHarvard Business School Case 112-017 Tokyo Stock Exchange survey raises questions about Japan's readiness to adopt IFRS in 2016. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong disincentives to offer shorter lead times, even if lead time reduction came at no cost. This paper investigates a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
who had an opportunity to work with his Global Institute for Leadership Development, commented that "What struck me about him was his gentle and focused message. He was clear that leadership was about relationships, first and foremost. To start anywhere else or... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Political System Harvard Business School Note 308-063 Offers a detailed overview of the structure and operation of the Chinese political system today. Key issues that are discussed include (1) the relationship between the Communist Party... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
finds, is that it offers the key actors no incentive to change their behavior. After all, why would they when it’s working great for their interests? Worst of all, the authors said, there’s no accountability. Unlike other industries,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54553 May 2018 Harvard Business Manager Was kostet die Zeit? By: Thomke, Stefan H., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Christina Kestel Abstract—A German luxury watch manufacturer wants to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming online from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that for Alcoa to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
struggles, which cause the demise of so many family businesses? The authors describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer detailed advice on how to develop and implement those... View Details