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- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Central Valley farmland fallow, which pushed local unemployment rates as high as 40 percent, drove protesters into the streets, and led Woolf to cut his crop back dramatically, at one point grinding up 90,000 water-hungry almond trees.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
savings from imposing a delay and deterring fraud to pay a substantial bonus, more than the interest rate times the amount at issue. You can pay them a bigger bonus than that. So in principle they should... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
very, very quickly, and it causes this fan blade to detach. And because the jet engine is spinning so quickly, as the fan blade detaches, it starts to shoot through the wing. And it ends up punching this enormous hole in the wing of the plane. Now what's View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
to correct that market failure by investing in minority stakes in private companies or lending at subsidized rates to such firms." At the same time, many Communist and former Communist countries have gone to great lengths to overcome the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
to want more than one indexer on their hard drive." Rahul Lahiri, vice president of search and product management at Ask Jeeves, said improving the specificity of search results is the key to improving users' experience. "It's certainly very View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
recognizes that contingent debt can be associated with incentive problems and lack of commitment. Thus, the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
evidence on whether and how these programs affect the real economy. Using rich borrower-linked mortgage-market data, we document that there is a “flypaper effect” of LSAPs, where the transmission of unconventional monetary policy to View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
consequences of a range of alternative policies. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-045_4e9f7d2d-24c3-4d8c-8843-1eb9016bc016.pdf December 2014 Negotiations in Times of Conflict Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
says Iyer. "But we found exactly the opposite." When the researchers examined 22 years worth of data on reported crimes in a variety of gender-specific and gender-nonspecific categories they were initially surprised by what they found. After women assumed... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The leading countries in Africa now... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the pack through good service, she... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop and give me 50! when they use the wrong risk free View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
they were with the choice, and how easy the decision was to make, those who had slept tended to be less certain with their choice in the first study, and about the same in the second. In fact, sleeping on their decision seemed to make some participants less View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
occurred in 2020. “COVID-19 is a dreadful pandemic,” she says in the following discussion, “but it has turned everything upside down in the health care sector in some good ways.” What are the most interesting digital health care... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio, and print media to create advertisements for companies of all... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
with which you are forced to characterize your economic situation provides a natural limit on opportunistic behavior that serves the interests of prospective lenders and tax authorities. This uniformity may even benefit you if it makes... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen