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- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
that they will disappear quickly from the public eye after having been seen by the intended recipients or after a short period of time. Disappearing selfies are seemingly the ideal solution for people who enjoy life on social media but... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
percent of the time isn’t good enough.” By some calculations, human drivers are 99.999819 percent crash-free. “Before there are going to be genuinely autonomous systems that the public accepts and that... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
the rating system. He said that federal financial aid should go to those schools that perform the best. The President eventually abandoned the idea after hearing from many college presidents that there is simply no way to reliably rate... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
within the world's existing energy systems. As part of a Bayesian analysis, Jack Devanney of Martingale estimates that on average we will have one such nuclear core casualty every 3,000 reactor years. For the current fleet, that's about one every 10 years. If the world... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
something that hadn't been done in 81 years—make an illegal drug legal. “They do not need to buy it at a fancy store—they'll go to a back alley basement shop as long as the product delivers” Of course, the question remains: How will state... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition on all sides. Andres Obregon Santo Domingo "There's... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
expect their investments to outperform major equity indexes going forward, and they’re continuing to fund new endeavors. “It’s sort of the opposite of doom and gloom,” Gompers says. “We were surprised by how relatively unaffected the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
maintenance of the tracker during the semester, uses Canada as an example of how deeply the tracker can help trace policy implications. The public typically sees actions like wage reimbursements for laid off workers. But the tracker... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
million times. I have learned a lot from the many, many conversations that have emerged around the talk. Some of these conversations have made me hopeful, but most have made me realize how far we must go to meet society’s urgent need for... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
Novelty is a core requirement for patentability, but patent officers, failing to realize that these herbs are far from novel, go ahead and issue the patents. “When a Western firm goes to a Western exchange, the patent examiner often... View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk about is the state of the Indian... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of both the CEO market and the... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth of co-production in the View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
Small-business owners trying to weather the coronavirus pandemic will face a financial blow that’s likely to be worse than what they experienced during the Great Recession more than a decade ago, says Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. “This is... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a precious commodity, now an industry fixture sustained by legions of analysts. "When I... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
more critical attention on those cases in which diffuse pragmatic interests go unrepresented in public policy. For too long we have accepted an easy account of these failures based on the diffuseness of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The leadership structure is complex. In 2010, Lincoln Center's... View Details