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- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
At Maverick, employees' morale had gone down, but no one had quit. In my conversations with the CEO, he was eager to learn how employees were feeling about the company, but did not express awareness of this problem. Q: In this firm or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
Lehman failure. None of these reforms is perfect, but they are improvements over where we were five years ago. Unfortunately, there are other areas in which we've made little or no progress since 2008. Housing finance is still basically a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
increase in information technology purchases. Wulf notes that the 1986-1999 time frame was especially significant in terms of corporate technology. The 1990s marked an era when PC prices started falling, when dot-com companies started... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult conditions, Dharavi's residents occupy a centrally located parcel of land in a rapidly growing... View Details
- Web
Product Management - Course Catalog
facing software products in the internet, mobile and marketplace sectors. In the 2024-2025 academic year, cases and exercises will be grounded in products from: Uber, Spotify, Ancestry, Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, Slack, Redfin, Xero, Duolingo, Peloton and more. View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Chong, the founder and CEO of Greenpac, a Singapore-based sustainable packaging company, explains the less expensive choice is also the more environmentally friendly choice, as pine is grown on sustainable tree farms. But she has learned to lead with the lower View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
greenhouses appeared to be less than three quarters full. When asked, Baan explained that he grows only enough to meet demand from his clients and no more. With high margins and a maximum production cycle of six weeks, Baan can afford... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
compared to consensual sovereign bond restructurings. A few holdout investors refused to concede and sued. These so-called "vulture" investors, hedge funds that bought the defaulted loans at deeply reduced prices and then sued... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
an average -3.6 percent three-day return around the announcement to stop guidance. . . . After the elimination of guidance, stock prices lead earnings less, but there is no change in overall stock return... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
secured funding, built the platform, and ran a series of paid pilots; all of the participants signed on as clients. Looking to the future, the co-CEOs see opportunities as wide as the web itself: “We think the entire internet is going in this direction,” says... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
arrangement and a commitment contract that made the $30 payment conditional on both attending the provider visit and meeting an ART adherence threshold. Third, the passive control arm received routine care and no incentives. Participants:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online marketing strategies. Download working paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/gfs-2015-03-09.pdf Markets with Price Coherence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2019 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. In no particular order (since we love them all) here are the top 10 posts from 2019: How Being an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
emissions by more than 30 percent; create housing for an expected 1 million new residents; expand and improve public transportation; cut solid waste in landfills by 75 percent; and achieve the cleanest air quality of any large US city (in part by adopting congestion... View Details