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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams. The South Sea Bubble, 1720 Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international stock market crash. An exhibition featuring selections from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
decided to take a chance on the four-day workweek. Carbonell and Bernard were very clear that this was an experiment, and they reserved the right to walk it back at any time if it wasn’t working. A few months into the trial, they sent out an View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
accuracy of daily sales forecasts. We collaborated with an online apparel retailer to assemble a dataset that combines (1) detailed internal operational information, including data on sales, advertising, and promotions, as well as (2)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
dissertation, the World Bank, the International Corporate Governance Network, the OCDE, and so on were promoting this principle as a way to overcome the abuses of managers or controlling shareholders who expropriated small shareholders or... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
to the company. In 1988, Binder was named CEO. That same year, Amgen's R&D efforts began to pay off as the company launched its first product, Epogen, which stimulates red blood cell production and thus fights the anemia common to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
("product" functions i.e., marketing, R&D) increases as firms become less diversified, while the number of functional managers farther from the product ("administrative" functions i.e., finance, law, HR) increases with IT investments. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
business with, an evermore diverse domestic and international customer base." READ MORE HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector How the Ron Brown Award Was Born READ MORE HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector How... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
would pay attention.” “It was always so much fun to talk to Ted, because his brain never stopped,” remarks HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. “His mind was truly creative, truly visionary. There was a freshness and exuberance about him,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
In 26 seasons under Ferguson, United won 38 domestic and international trophies-giving him nearly twice as many as any other English club manager-and became one of the valuable franchises in sports. In 2012, during Ferguson's final season... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
health care. Those statistics are things that we have to keep in mind. And I don't think that the implication is that we have to open up our checkbooks and write bigger checks. I don't think the implication is that everybody necessarily has to View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
workday. After all, Ammerman says, “This is a true teachable moment, and companies should be paying attention and jumping on it.” Nip aggressive behavior in the bud First, companies need to foster an environment where there’s no room for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
an organization creates significant social value, we don’t care how it sustains itself — with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet we really don’t know much about... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
internal culture. It becomes every person for himself,” says Kanter. Kanter says it was certainly time for Kalanick to go—and she’s hoping the company’s brash way of doing business falls away with him. She believes Uber is suffering from... View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
forgiven Shell for what they [did] with that oil rig." An Australian argued: "McDonald's pays back locally, but it is their duty. They are making so much money, they should be giving back." The playing field isn't level;... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
views matter. And it can turn departing employees into corporate ambassadors for years to come. Unfortunately, too few leaders pay attention to this tool; their programs fail to either improve retention or produce useful information. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne