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10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

buyout side and the early venture capital side in Europe, said Kuemmerle. Europe, Asia and Latin America still lag behind the U.S., he said, but "the hunt for the best entrepreneurial teams is still on, so I encourage everybody who thinks they have a great model... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

over the software supply chain and application security, enabling them to mitigate risks associated with CI/CD. Are we prepared for an investigation to correct errors when things inevitably go wrong? People: Make your skilled personnel... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

magazine, a well-read US publication devoted to in-depth stories on music, politics, and pop culture, featured Murdoch at the top of its list of politicians or business executives that "hindered progress on global warming." The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a precious commodity, now an industry fixture sustained by legions of analysts. "When I... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber Abstract—There is a growing body of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Commerce and Strategy panel at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference. He told alumni that fighting against a larger, stronger rival means not playing the game that your opponents want you to play. "Instead, figure out a different way to View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Taking such a public stand was a politically risky prospect for a not-yet-tenured professor. Her work was already facing a fair amount of criticism and controversy. “There were a lot of people who did not like [Imperial Reckoning] because... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

common cause does not mean that the production line is secure. In fact, the nesting dolls model may be the best way to go wrong while seemingly doing the right thing. Rosabeth M. Kanter The frail, forlorn face of Rupert Murdoch in the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying activities kept by the Senate Office of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

and led the conference, everyone agrees that infrastructure is important and that problems exist—but not for the same reasons. The result: a lack of agreement on solutions. "It's a public agenda item, but it has a lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

importantly, they viewed humblebraggers as less attractive than the braggers. The takeaway: By public perception, complainers are better than braggers. And humblebraggers are the worst. By this point in the research, it was clear that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

and insurance fees. "Once you do that, everyone in the marketplace is going to know who the federal government has identified as systemically significant, and one of two things is going to happen," says... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

in a unified European market with the introduction of the Euro. This new landscape offers new business opportunities and possibilities to write cases that show very multicultural environments fairly unique to Europe. Parallel to that trend of a unifying European... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

skilled workers. Developing the right skills The irony is that jobs like these are exactly what we need to revive our middle class— but they will continue to prove elusive where we fail to align skills training to employer needs or emphasize job skills in View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

will prove to be most influential not in the Western industrialized world, but in places like Burma, or China, or Saudi Arabia. Q: What are the public policy implications in your description of this reoccurring give-and-take between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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