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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
variety of sources. It is organized into three sections: (1) "The Big Picture" explores macroeconomic indicators, as well as those associated with the opportunities and constraints of the business environment; (2) "Regional Variation" makes a strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team of three MBA 2003 students,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
the effects of changes in comparability, we examine changes to information asymmetry for firms domiciled in the U.K. Domestic standards in the U.K. that preceded IFRS adoption are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008); accordingly, we use the U.K. as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
the foreign market. Specifically, a shift to arm's length transfer pricing erodes domestic consumer surplus by making the gray market less competitive domestically, which in turn may offset any domestic welfare gains that accompany a shift to arm's length transfer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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meant when he said, “ He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. ” In an increasingly polarized world, open-minded listening can be challenging. When everyone’s beliefs seem set in stone, you can feel reluctant to... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
maid in Olympia, and I used a lot of formal and social analysis to suggest that the name of that painting, which is Portrait d’une négresse, négresse bring the French word for black woman, a term that is a racialized, generic, and in many... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ebay-partner-network-d/an/914016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-436 Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy This note offers an analysis of four fundamental strategic decisions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
David LaneHarvard Business School Case 810-075 Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that GSM, the same advanced wireless technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
manufacturers to influence prices set by their downstream partners. A MAP policy imposes a lower bound on advertised prices, subjecting violating retailers to punishments such as termination of distribution agreements. Despite this... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
perspective over the last 30 years, they write, with these changes often occurring in tandem with broader developments in psychology and in society as a whole. Most recently, analysis has begun to look at social or personal factors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO Reinhold Hesse is debating several options: establishing a joint venture, contracting with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
we wanted to make the program sustainable, with the hope in the future that the program itself would not be needed, as an organization’s culture and fabric would be able to support this neuro-diversity from recruitment to on-boarding, development, and job progression.”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
image of masculinity with an unconventional one and then set out to prove the new image—revealing mistakes strategically, for example, or competing in displays of sensitivity. Instead, the goal of proving one's masculine credentials,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne