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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- Web
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
current HBS students for your organization. Since recruiting may be new to you or simply something you dip into from time to time, we thought it would be helpful to provide you with some tips and tricks to tackle hiring at HBS like a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
and the reason for many a loosened tie and rolled-up shirtsleeve. The 2005 GLF was the culmination of nearly three years of planning, led by HBS professor Nancy Koehn as faculty chair. “We chose London because for so long it has been at the center of all kinds of View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
together, our results highlight how revealing failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55396 forthcoming Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400 inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%) of the growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
Restaurant inspectors can be the last line of defense between you and moldy bread. (HighLaZ) Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in hundreds of thousands of currently overlooked violations being... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
full employment costs," says Hagiu. "It is very inadequate for these marketplaces." Oftentimes, the optimal model for a company might be somewhere in the middle—controlling some aspects of contractor performance but not others, a situation that View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult and costly, although in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
widespread distress: Corporate credit quality and growth, says Harvard Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the highest fraction of the non-performing loans coming from households.” Debt incurred by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the moon. With lifestyle choices... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
point system that takes into account a number of factors including the potential recipient's proximity to the available organ, blood type, life expectancy after a transplant, and various fairness criteria such as time waiting on the list.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company management to... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
many advertisers that currently buy ads from Yahoo. The proposed deal would substantially reduce Yahoo's ability to offer competitive payments to Web site publishers seeking to show pay-per-click ads. Without Yahoo bidding against Google... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
Those private interests must be held accountable to a certain level of stewardship, “meaning that they are not allowed to give it away to those with interest counter to our endeavors as a nation.” Others were doubtful that regulation,... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
activities of a large cohort of physician-MBAs by gathering information on 206 physician graduates from the Harvard Business School MBA program who obtained their degrees between 1941 and 2014. Key outcome measures that were examined include medical specialty, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
differences when it comes to funding, which are detailed below. Older alumni are more likely than younger alumni to be entrepreneurs: Baby Boomers account for 28% of all working alumni but make up 35% of tech founders, while Millennials... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Considering integrated reporting’s current state of play, Professor of Management Practice Eccles and his coauthor provide guidance to ensure wider adoption of the practice and success of the movement, starting with how companies can... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
physicians, nurses, and other care providers to assess the progress of patients). The authors argue that the way hospitals hold care providers accountable for cost and quality outcomes also influences whether they work as members of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
compensation consultants who legitimize outrageous pay; accountants and attorneys who see no evil; legal vote buying; and rampant conflicts of interest. They discuss what happened, or failed to happen, in the boardrooms of Lehman... View Details