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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48383 Online... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712402-PDF-ENG Language and Globalization: 'Englishnization' at Rakuten Tsedal NeeleyHarvard Business School Case 412-002 Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten (Japan's largest online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
opportunity you both saw. Who is the audience you’re going after, and what was the gap you saw in the market? MA: This is going to sound crazy but our target is the 200 million people who read the news online in the United States. The gap... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
spring of 1985. In theory, there were 200 available seats. That was nowhere near enough for the 450 students who signed up. And who signed up in droves the following year—requiring the teaching of two additional sections by Sahlman’s... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45468 August 2013 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United States. The field was developed by entrepreneurs like Roger Babson... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
(Baldini & Castoldi) Forchielli offers sardonic advice to Italians, as seen in the book’s blurb in the Italian Amazon: If you are young, quick, just emigrate. Read a lot, especially the foreign press. If you do not know English, at least learn to read. Avoid View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
90 days. (These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.) The order provoked a great deal of opposition, including an online petition entitled “Academics Against Immigration Executive Order,” which argues... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
consist of action research and interviews with managers and artists involved in innovation and processes of creation, and our intention is to explore the following questions: How do business innovators know when to keep things open and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
across the river at Harvard College and at other locations throughout the University. Speaking on behalf of Dean Kim B. Clark, who was in New Mexico and unable to return due to airline travel restrictions, longtime faculty member Professor James I. Cash View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Bluefin had built a system that gathered millions of online comments in an effort to develop new metrics for TV programs and brand advertising. With data from Twitter and other social sites, expressions, not just impressions, could now be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
indistinguishable from one another. Fabs 4 and 5 both came online in 1979, each more efficient and more expensive than their predecessors. From humble beginnings, manufacturing was well on its way to becoming one of Intel’s competitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
with the orchestra. The post was followed by a series of conducting positions in the United States (Alabama’s Huntsville Symphony and the Houston Symphony) and Mexico (the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa) before his guest-conducting stints... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S co-moves positively with output in both N and S. After calibrating the model to Mexico and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes housing... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
crisis was behind the exceptional growth of the hedge funds' secondary market, yet another crisis could follow and boost the secondary market again. What direction should Shelley take once the hedge fund industry fully recovered? But what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
first started out, it was really theatrical, was king. Home video was a big deal. DVDs were a big deal in really propping up the market. And now DVDs are not really that relevant. And it's all online and digital and streaming. And... View Details