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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
was in crisis—with bank suspensions running at near record levels. At the same time, the broader economy was sputtering, and U.S. gold reserves had come under severe pressure after Britain abandoned its gold... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
programming decisions and setting advertising rates? Nielsen had become the gold standard in the broadcast industry and felt confident in their data. Could Bluefin's system provide new insights to marketers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
outside the United States view us, they look at organizations like Boeing, DuPont, GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble as gold standard companies. We tend to lament that manufacturing is going down,... View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
responsible for that region’s entrepreneurial triumph as anybody. Indeed, without Rock’s visionary wisdom and soft-spoken, calm counsel, the Silicon Valley might never have become the technology-based gold mine of ideas and startups that... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
two full-length practice exams at the end of the book as well as a glossary. It compares and contrasts generally accepted accounting principles in the US and international financial reporting standards for every topic covered in the book.... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates components of shelter, education, skill development and livelihood creation and affords residents a basic standard of living. What should the blueprint of this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn credentials. Such programs are the absolute View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
around the world. He set the very highest standards for himself and for all the rest of us. Hugo was always a great inspiration, support, and friend during all the years we were together.” Angela Q. Crispi (MBA 1990), the School’s... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Heart Harvard Business School Case 507-025 The firm has to choose between an established brand, Tanishq, and a new skunkworks brand, GoldPlus, to go after the Indian plain gold jewelry market: Tanishq, initially targeted at a western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
competitive advantage. The sector’s unique hybrid status means that new entrants require not only the standard mix of tech and business savvy vital to the success of any startup, but also a high degree of what Gotsch calls “domain... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the world for its methodology... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Measure Economic Activity at Scale By: Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity at scale? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau have long... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
restaurants have declined in market share as Yelp penetration has increased. This suggests that online consumer reviews substitute for more traditional forms of reputation. I then test whether consumers use these reviews in a way that is consistent with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details