Cycling - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

pay high coupons—typically, two-digit interest rates—for up to 30 years," Vallée explains. The researchers set out to find out why so many local politicians took out toxic loans in the first place—and whether they understood the stakes. Political Incentives To test... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

business cycle, and we chose to study 1991 and 1999 because those years bracket a full business cycle in the U.S. economy. With the passage of almost another decade, how much reliance is currently placed on in-house agencies? The... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

with a good track record but an "outsider" with limited knowledge of the business. The cycle is begun again. Sound familiar? It should. It's unfolding in two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Merrill Lynch and... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

economic conflicts behind the arguments put forward by the different parties. We also identify several key open questions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50676 Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

specifically tailor their e-commerce measurement approach, but also utilize multiple measures to fully analyze their situations. Different measurement criteria are important for companies that have different strategies or may be in a different stage of their life View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

It's the most wonderful time of the year—or that's how the song goes. But this year's decline in retail sales has resulted in definitely uncheery employee layoffs and payroll cuts, a trend that is likely to continue. While the vicious View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

23 Jun 2021
Blog Post

How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

cycle in international markets isn’t as structured as in the US and things may not move as quickly as you’d expect. It’s important not to get disheartened and to continue networking, staying involved in regional clubs, talking to your... View Details

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

a management perspective, what challenges face airline leaders today? A: Industries can evolve and change as a result of both external and internal forces. As the life cycle of an industry evolves, the dominant business model also... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (MIT Press) U.S. venture capital firms have grown dramatically over the last two decades, nurturing a host of start-ups -- including Apple Computer, Genentech, Intel, Lotus,... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

cross-country variation in the intensive margin of adoption accounts for more than 40% of the variation in income per capita. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-026.pdf Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

support to for-profit social enterprises, in the form of a debt or equity relationship. The idea is to recover a portion of that investment, at least 1x or 2x, and cycle it back into supporting other organizations. What I find interesting... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

and we will enter an unstoppable virtuous cycle towards renewables and hopefully pull the rest of the world along with us! Heather (March) Takle (MBA 2006) President and CEO, PowerOptions, Inc.In 30 years, I am certain that we will look... View Details

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

key components: It is organized into "integrated practice units" that focus on a particular disease, as well as the conditions associated with that disease. It measures outcome based on the patient's condition before, during, and after care. It measures costs based on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

simple steps that don't require long cycles of implementation." In his remarks, Paul Deninger of Broadview examined some of the forces of change at work in manufacturing today, including an influx of communications technologies,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

March 2024
Supplement

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn

In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina

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14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

can’t get the information (or skill or experience) in, and if you don't get sleep afterward you can’t make the information stay. What you need: The ideal amount of sleep varies for individuals—“enough” is what allows you to feel rested. Sleep needs to View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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