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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
increases. Diversification The Wrong Way Reinsurance firms are pushed to diversify, diversify, diversify, but they need to do it well, which Froot hasn't found to be the case. Reinsurers often diversify in order to garner good scores from ratings agencies—and those... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
offering or withholding capital, banks rival governments in their power to shape business behavior across various industries. Cynics wondering if this is just window-dressing should consider the case of Santander Brazil, a top financial group that has View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
profits and managerial problems in the United States between the 1950s and the 1980s. It seemed important to ascertain whether this was a problem unique to one firm, or part of a more general pattern. The upshot was a conference organised... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post performance is lower. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Porter, Director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School: I'd like to focus though, just to be brief here, on really some of the main findings on the microeconomic and corporate side of the equation,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
that Ponsse maintained its important characteristics as it expanded its global sales and service network? Information on the global forest industry is included. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507002 ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
wise or lucky. His blend of new statistical methods and old common-sense reasoning helped him profit as the forecasting industry first developed. Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle Author:Walter A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
Take a seat and hold on tightly. You're aboard the Internet Express, where speed is the order of the day and profit but a remote destination. For firms that ride the rails of the Internet's fast track, getting big fast—whatever its... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—In this paper, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth and profitability of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
overall business offering. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508003 The Allstate Corporation Harvard Business School Case 708-485 In 2007, Allstate was the number two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
in a U-Stor-It container in Inglewood, California. After losing his day job, he turns to his “auxiliary emergency backup job” as a “freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia.” He, along with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Timberland apparel called City Year Gear. Writes Austin, "Value statements like 'Give Racism a Boot' and 'Hike the Path to Justice' were associated with products such as backpacks and T-shirts that were marketed through Timberland's retail outlets, with the View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
high impact entrepreneurship movement as a tool for economic development in countries around the world. In 2010, Jaime was named an Endeavor Entrepreneur. This case can accompany HBS Case No. 817-073, “MIA: Profit at the Base of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
recently went by with no new bank charters issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the first time that happened in the agency's 80-year history. Perhaps the most compelling cyclical factor tightening the loan spigot is... View Details