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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
new venture, come to terms with YouTube, the leading video-sharing site on the Internet, or maintain a nonexclusive strategy? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709447... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2023
- HBS Case
How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?
basic economics of a generative AI are being overlooked. There are significant unanswered questions in terms of how people will actually make money with this technology. Google and OpenAI and others can't lose money in perpetuity. But... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
a self-reported measure. Overall, we find that debt literacy is low: only about one-third of the population seems to comprehend interest compounding or the workings of credit cards. Even after controlling for demographics, we find a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
gatekeeping institutions, from credit rating agencies to supply-chain auditors, are important players in contemporary regulatory regimes. Yet little is known about what influences the decisions of the individual accountants, auditors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
markets, these are the kinds of concerns you should think about when setting payment terms and dealing directly with suppliers. One tool to deter fraud: pay later. Edelman's new research on a major advertising affiliate network... View Details
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
to be clear from a brand perspective about the profile they’re putting forward in terms of whom they hire,” van Bever says. “But employers need to understand that where that runs into trouble is when their business prerogative conflicts... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52102 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Credit-Induced Boom and Bust By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
timing of repayment obligations. The standard microfinance contract has very little discretion in terms of when you repay your loan, so Natalia and her collaborators did one of the earliest studies to look at what happens if we relax that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
pled guilty to second-degree murder, later found out that White was not actually a gang member. He was a father who was on his way home from work. Miller served more than four years in a juvenile correction center for the murder, although it took him much longer to... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
crisis. In addition to the operational learnings around banking and ensuring not all of their cash is in one vulnerable place, it was a big wake-up call for many founders in terms of how they do everything to keep their cool with... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
workout plan, enabling more than 90% to meet their payments and get back to good credit standing, while saving the bank more than $80 million in bad debt annually. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719417-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
types of divergent organizational change are likely to be undertaken by individual actors with different profiles in terms of social position within the field and the organization. Should You Have a Global Strategy? Authors:C. Carr and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
sustainability. He sounded great! He was well versed in the vocabulary and actions of the fight to save the environment, using terms like “clean energy” and “going green,” and discussed how his company was committed to sustainability... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
nonstandard drivers frequently lapse on their payments in order to pay for basic necessities, then incur high fees when they re-enroll in coverage. Nonstandard carriers earn 13 percent of their premium income from fees and often require drivers to pay the full coverage... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to investors so that value created inside the company is fully View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
Partners in Short & Long Term Relationships. “The conviction to have a cofounder is often based solely on complementary skills and experience versus the softer, and often more important, relationship criteria.” In the podcast, Dr.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin