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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
on the quality of alumni programs and services. Monty, we salute you! As I reflect on my two years as president of the HBS Alumni Association, I am moved by the potential we all have to help the School meet its goal of continuing to... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA), Web 2.5-enabled economy. We show that a trio of forces of digital disruption—specifically the disintermediation of the services of instructors and facilitators, the disaggregation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
quality of research. Moreover, once a sell-side analyst has prompted an institutional client to take a large position in a stock recommended by the analyst, the analyst faces a disincentive to ever downgrade that stock, as doing so would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
the hallmarks of many luxury brands, some of which are hundreds of years old. The enduring quality of a particular luxury good can be part of its appeal, yet consumers — particularly young, fashion-conscious consumers — want a product... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
of geographic space in establishing networks." The Vital Network Venture capital shares some of the same qualities as the life sciences industry in terms of the crucial role played by networks, Stuart says. "Networks are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
character and leadership qualities of several prominent figures, past and present — including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) — whose work has had broad social or political implications. “It’s not a business book,” Zaleznik explains.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
2016 University of Chicago Press Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services By: Ofek, Elie, Eitan Muller, and Barak Libai Abstract—This book bridges the gap between what academics know, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
healthcare services is taking place from Asia to Africa. In India, the Avarind Eye Hospital provides routine eye surgeries to the highest quality standards at perhaps a tenth of the developed country price.... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
cement the loyalty of those who remain by assuring employees that the company has survived difficult times before, maintaining quality rather than cutting corners, and servicing existing customers rather... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
cameras are almost expendable devices, offering much less quality but good enough to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs reaching mass markets. Solar cells met limited success as alternative energy sources to the power grid, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
performance improvement. We highlight implications for institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-001.pdf Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to match the costs and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
living conditions of the people who fix your house, mow your lawn, teach your children, and are the first responders in an emergency. Ask how they can have the same quality of life that you do.” View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Gretchen M. Spreitzer, 552-565. Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's link: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Health/?view=usa&ci=9780199734610 Working PapersCompetition and Illicit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
administrative overhead has fallen approximately 25 percent. “It’s an efficient, functional system,” he adds, citing the program’s capability in database management and automatic processing — two particularly useful qualities when it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross