Real Interest Rate Risk - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

(revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of the rate at which click-through View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

telephones sometimes resting on the carpet where furniture had not arrived. Things seemed to be moving fast even for the placid Bussgang, who said, "It's a real challenge putting together a group of people who have never worked... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

"Right now we're letting the ends of the ideological spectrum and the entrenched power of legacy interests stalemate a path to the future," Lassiter says. "That's a thing worth fighting." “Right now we're letting the ends of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

economy, a record-low crime rate and a healthier New York. His smoking ban in public places was a landmark decision. Some believe his legacy will last for generations to come. “There are many things we have achieved that I am proud of,”... View Details

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

the Aldrich classrooms on the Harvard Business School campus where other people's ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges—a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives—score the plans on criteria including financials, people,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

Web

Instagram Takeover Policy | About

It’s one thing for our staff to simply repost your photos – it’s another thing entirely for you to show your day and what it’s like to be part of the HBS community from a first-person perspective. You’ve been approved as a guest contributor because you have something... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the course of their evolution, seen, for example, in rising View Details

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Environmental Management. In his role as faculty chair overseeing the BEI, he collaborates with Lynn Schenk, BEI director, who adds: “We’re not debating whether climate change is real or caused by human activity. We’re laser-focused on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Aug 2022
News

Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

current? KL: We’ve created four platforms to stay engaged with our constituents. One is a Learning Network (see related story) in which we foster a feedback loop among our alumni, practitioners, and faculty. We are building ways to share what we are learning in our... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to shift (to a supplier) the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached from the real economy. And they were upset by the potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to damaging legislation. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

annually over the first eighty-five years of this century, have surged over the past decade to over 120 thousand per year. This does not appear to reflect the impact of changes in domestic patent policy, shifts in the success rate of... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

small inventors. NPE patent trolling has a real negative impact on targeted firms, without any increase in innovation, technology transfer, or other counterbalancing benefits measured thus far. Publisher's link:... View Details