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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Slum for Sale

but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) The case elicited a broad range of student responses when HBS associate professor Gunnar Trumbull taught it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

  PublicationsRepublic of China at 60-An International Assessment Author:William C. Kirby Publication:Harvard University Asia Center, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

19th or 20th? How international can a global media company be? What are the boundaries? What are the political implications of global media and how will media play a political role? The Reuters View Reuters CEO Job said the Internet is... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life.  Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New York. In many ways the View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

funding, lobbying, committee participation, and other instruments to influence local, national, and international political environments. Also firms that are heavily influenced by politics are more likely to craft Integrated Political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/fdi-perspectives   Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

world," notes Simons. The topic of marketing, taught by Professor John Quelch, is brought up to the executive boardroom level, says Simons. “There's a realization that they only have so much time left.” Professor Julio Rotemberg provides an View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

trade press. Reasons for the discrepancy are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-044.pdf Taste Heterogeneity, IIA, and the Similarity Critique Authors:Thomas J. Steenburgh and Andrew Ainslie Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

contemporary circumstances so as to be relevant for managers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52977 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences for specific maturities View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

that organizes coffee farmers, links them directly to coffee importers, and guarantees a premium over the prevailing price being paid on the international market. Starbucks has been quick to respond in times of crisis, too. When... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

strategy practice leaders, warn that internal complexity is the silent killer of sustainable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core. They don’t stray from their business model to pursue radical... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

responsibility programs are basically funded by an internal tax within the company,” says Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. “The good that such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

September 11: A Community Reflects

develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy, globalization, and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson