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  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

one might conclude that efforts to influence human decisions through "nudging" might be effective. However, respondents were far from unanimous in drawing this conclusion. Adnan Younis Lodhi initiated the debate by saying... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Nov 2008
  • HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

government intervention." This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story. The beginnings of MME lie with case protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group's president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the 10,000 Women View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

to enter the fine art sales space, these two auction houses explore modifications to their business model. Some efforts by the two organizations have already begun but are in the infantile stage, and thus the success of these initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

immigrant establishes a new notions store. The initial 3-month, GAAP-based income statement differs from one prepared by an economist friend. The store owner wants to know why one shows a profit and the other a loss. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

aspects of risk including political risk, foreign exchange risk, market risk, and execution risk. Further, the discussion covers social aspects including whether the slum should be redeveloped at all, whether it should be redeveloped by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

Initiation to Graduation By: Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Fraud Allegations and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

  PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

its implications for corporate governance and firm performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels established under bilateral investment treaties, investment provisions of regional trade... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

firms’ institution-seeking behavior by documenting how they make strategic use of weaker institutions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51721 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the marketplace and, in so doing,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may be different at different points in time. We find that retail store openings initially cannibalize direct channel sales in the short term if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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