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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
views of how foreign direct investment works. "I think a glimpse into private sector flows has shown that our conventional wisdom might not always align with the reality on the ground," he says. He chose to write on foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
their first private equity fund. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207067 Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
product be engineered under current specifications to an acceptable cost of goods and retail price point? These decisions had to be made soon so that the product could be launched to meet the back to school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports hummed along in this country. Yet Nohria said in recent years he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the Secklers. "Here was this drug that... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro Cardiovascular Center Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
economy. Business networks confronting climate change Spotlights Rebecca Henderson MBA 1985 Professor, Harvard Business School “Every private sector leader should be advocating for effective climate policy,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability, we predict this should reduce insiders' ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Institute; Amir Kermani, an assistant professor at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley; and Carlo Sommavilla, a doctoral student at the Swiss Finance Institute. “Some managers appear to free-ride on the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
of inflation increases demand for cost of living adjustments. Frames that highlight flexibility, control, and investment significantly reduce annuitization. A majority of respondents prefer to receive an extra "bonus" payment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-Ho WongHarvard Business School Case 210-089 A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard Business View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
private equity partners and ownership for the Messer family. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809056-PDF-ENG Twitter Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen, and Bill HeilHarvard Business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
markets. Social Network Marketing: What Works? Published: July 27, 2009 Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
CorsiHarvard Business School Case 612-070 The head of the branded private investment company owner of the Virgin brand reflected on the group's new pillars of growth. Since the 1970s when Richard Branson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
advertising. “Government is a giant customer. They buy a lot of stuff” Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss explores this strategy pivot in a new case on Bigbelly, co-written with case researcher Christine Snively, that looks... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique social, cultural, political, and historical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty line. But statistics alone tell... View Details