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30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

companies, spelling out corporate governance principles that it would advocate. (See illustration.) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink followed in 2016 with a letter to chief executives of large US and European companies urging them to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

Gupta commented that responses to the question of whether immigration policies should be more welcoming to low-skilled workers assumed that the issue was limited to the United States. Gupta reminds us that it could just as well have... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

vision," Verganti says. "Steve Jobs has said that the market doesn't always know what it wants. Companies that do radical innovation do not listen to users; they eventually value market feedback, but first they propose things to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

endeavors are bigger than the most ambitious mixed-use real estate projects, they are funded by promoters with deep and patient pockets and a long view of value creation, and with ambition to help an entire... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

University of Texas at Austin and David L. Yermack (HBS MBA1989/JD1991, PhDBE 1994) of New York University wondered to what degree money was a factor in minister performance, and what it could tell us about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

were published in the paper, Financial vs. Strategic Buyers. The research team first scoured data of private equity firms in the United States that had set out to buy underperforming companies and turn them... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

09 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 9

future contracts and the AQC's value as part of the solution to untenably high U.S. health care costs. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/612016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-088 Apple Inc.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Established in 1997, the program provides health insurance to uninsured children in moderate-income families. To research the link between SCHIP and entrepreneurship, Olds studied 1992-2011 data from the United States Census Bureau's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

Although plenty has changed for venture capitalists with the slowing of the economy and market upheavals, there are still plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs and those who fund them, said panelists at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

many patients as possible. Rewards for quality and value creation are rare, if at all present, in physician compensation plans. As time previously devoted to compiling EMR documentation becomes available, institutions may increase their... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

shipping fees." Many multichannel strategies to consider Retailers have a number of options when deciding how to fulfill customer orders while attempting to maximize profit and customer satisfaction, says Ngwe. To help them, Ngwe... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

August 2001 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Doral Costa

By: William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel and Amy Silverstein

Doral Costa is a proposed 277,803 square foot Class A office park development in Miami, FL. Trammell Crow Co. would like to develop this office park in joint venture with a partner. Samantha Spar, the acquisitions partner at Titan Associates, a large real estate... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Joint Ventures; Acquisition; Investment; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Fair Value Accounting; Construction; Property; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry; Miami

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14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

how it affects social value in society at large. That could soon start to change. Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who studies the political economy of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"the average amount of global privatization was valued at between US$70 to $80 billion. Experts predict that the potential for privatization in Europe in the decade ahead will have a View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

agreement with each party as well as the value of having that person or group onboard. 3. Identify key relationships among the parties: who influences whom, who tends to defer to whom, who owes something to... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

two reasons. First, they are systematically lower than the returns of American outbound FDI. By way of example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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