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- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
like training a muscle, and it’s exactly what we are training here. VARUN NAGARAJAN (MBA 2022) Nagarajan is a member of the HBS Show Club, Entrepreneurship Club, and the South-Asian Business Association. He... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
T. (Tim) Hall and Kathy Kram of Boston University’s Questrom School, and HBS doctoral candidate Jeff Steiner. The early findings revealed that many retirees follow a typical pattern of psychological adjustment. They eagerly count down to... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
decreased from 49,198 in January 2010 to 14,920 in September 2017, according to the study. The effects of paywalls varied significantly from company to company, ranging from a 24 percent increase in total sales to a 12 percent decrease. However, the research View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
show that (i) firms may become "more closed" in response to competition from an outside open source project; (ii) firms are more likely to open substitute, rather than complementary, modules to existing open source projects;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55194 Large Banks and Small Firm Lending By: Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro Abstract—We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
PublicationsRenewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:Istanbul: Is Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, 2010, Turkish ed. Abstract Unilever's brands can now be found in one out of every two households in the world. This arresting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
is constrained. We assess these predictions by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for cardiac surgery in the state. We show that entry led to a redistribution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
Assistant Professor George Serafeim, coauthor of the working paper Short-termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk, with HBS doctoral candidate Maria Loumioti and Assistant Professor Francois Brochet. "We tend to make sweeping statements... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
at hand was relatively easy,” says Raiche. “The minutia required to make it happen was the difficult part.” Many cases studied at HBS show an existing system, with processes, hierarchy, and incentives that... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
decision rights, and payoffs, we generate a large number of potential governance structures, including strategic divestitures, total divestitures, licensing agreements, and royalty agreements. For the broad range of parameter values and payoff functions we consider, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
accolades,” she says. “With no formal programming, people could come and go, but most showed up and stayed. We were up against so many other events, so to have people stay says a lot. We’ll likely aim for this to be an annual event.” In... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
over time. On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture) Author:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This article shows how corporate culture, in the sense of shared beliefs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14699 Forced Sales and House Prices Authors:John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Parag Pathak Abstract This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of Massachusetts over the last 20 years to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Yung Winata
outside of my comfort zone. I believed an MBA would expose me to different perspectives on global, social, and business issues and provide a tool kit for me to be a plug and play leader in any industry. That belief has been 1000% validated since coming to HBS. Coming... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The current economic crisis has been blamed... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch