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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and short-term bonds forecasts positively future excess returns on bonds at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively stock return... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
1:34 2025 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Social Enterprise Track: Aidra Health Aidra Health is bridging the urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
For most, these are just cases. For us, they are frequent reminders of the systems that were built and persist to the detriment of Black people. I hate the exchange that Black students have before each of these classes: “Who’s gonna do it... View Details
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
come to appreciate unique business protocols practiced in Japanese companies - e.g., exchange of name cards, silence in elevators, empathy to co-workers, being on time, etc. - that contribute to Japan’s unique approach to innovation and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
partnership with the World Health Organization, and contributes tuberculosis treatments to developing countries. "That said," observes Vasella, "our entire industry has a problem, since we continue to be seen as a cost factor rather than... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
policy would be in the best interest of the United States, and what levers (if any) the U.S. government could pull in order to insure that such a policy would be carried out. What would the three actors decide, and how would their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms of information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
close to the firm's headquarters in southern France, on one of the large exchanges in the U.S., or perhaps in Asia, where much of the firm's future growth is expected. The case provides opportunities to discuss the benefits and costs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners. Therefore, we expect to observe more homophilous interactions within these structures than across their boundaries. We test this argument using a dataset consisting of millions of e-mails View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what you do best but on what your organization most needs from you-and don't spend too much time on operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reversible moves to deepen their understanding of the unfolding game being played, and to build capabilities. They accept ambiguity and some apparent failures in exchange for improved learning and market position. Imperfectionists succeed... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
energize employees, and insure that the components of the initiative become part of the firm's core systems and procedures. In many instances, such as the first CSE initiative, firms do not do this foundational work, and they plunge ahead... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
insurance issues—quickly seemed insurmountable. “There are so many variables to make these devices tow us around,” says Rogers. “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” Chief among the hurdles? Funding. “The VC meetings... View Details