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- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would have predicted the success of the path it has taken. For two decades now, Samsung has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
undergo renovation. "For years, every measure of success in our industry was driven by quantity," Lopez observes. "How many buildings, how many screens, how many seats? We turned that equation around and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
video, all to improve the at-the-game experience and to keep pace with the coverage enjoyed by fans at home. Engineering Excitement If the NFL has seemed preternaturally blessed by good fortune and smart management, some of its success... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
Whatever the headlines predict these days, there may still be good news for entrepreneurs. Many successful products, services, and pivotal ideas have been launched during an economic lull, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
finance-related issues and the experiences they go through. Saad Hashmi Associate Corporate Relationship Mangaer at HSBC Bank Middle East Limited Forecast financial success in the near and long term and recognize how companies’ accounting... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
our research examines. We find that, to the contrary, the success of voluntary regulation is contingent on a robust regime of government inspection and enforcement. Within such a regime, we find that voluntary compliance efforts by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job training for nearby... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
improvements. According to Roberto and Levesque, "We began to understand the barriers and catalysts for successful institutionalization of these programmatic change efforts." They described their results in a new HBS working... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
sociology in order to understand this critical turning point in German family business history. The book analyzes changes in ownership and management, dynastic, and succession strategies, as well as the "psychology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm to practice more IR and that this investor or crisis-induced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
new products and businesses. The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
problem, according to several readers, is identifying attitude in the first place. Bradburne Millett asks, "What sort of measurements are you contemplating to reveal desired attitudes on the scale needed to recognize their presence... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital By: Wang, Charles C.Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
monitoring efforts as well as the syndication process. Working Papers The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract : We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
Of course, the study only measured purchases within 24 hours—so there may be a longer-range benefit to enhancing brand image through imagery-focused ads. The most surprising result of the study is that there is no one type of ad that... View Details