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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

  Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi Corporation may have topped the Fortune charts, but View Details
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

million company." He immediately began to shake things up. While Mutti did well in the retail arena with its tomato paste, the market was small and getting smaller since fewer Italians were cooking from scratch. Other tomato processing companies weren't faring well.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

markets, such as the one for patents, generally create profit opportunities for intermediaries. We begin with an overview of the problems that arise in patent markets, and how traditional institutions like patent brokers, patent pools,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

human) disaster risk, response, and recovery preparation. B: Basic Resources. There is massive growth in urban populations as hundreds of millions of people move to cities seeking opportunity (UNPD). Already, there is not enough clean... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

impact of leverage on financial vulnerability for large firms during a crisis. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) the paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity, and death. Companies are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Laura Winig
In 2010, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Profit; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; United States
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  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the developed economies experiencing... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

challenges of a platform landscape that includes significantly varying installed device base sizes, growth rates, application distribution models, and hardware device profiles. Focusing on Apple's market leading iOS platform and "App... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking about what led to the writing of these books. Richard Tedlow:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

the game—and some minds—when it comes to fossil fuels and the future. "We can create an industry and put some new options on the table," he says. "My hope is that we can build some extremely profitable carbon-management EOR projects and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

information. We implement an experiment where senders are required to report their private information truthfully but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find that senders use complex disclosure more than half the time. Most of this obfuscation is View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Private Equity Finance Course Number 1440 Professor Victoria Ivashina Senior Lecturer Ted Berk Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This is an advanced corporate finance course focused on private equity (PE) investing. The course... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

examples presented during the IFC challenge the traditional notion of segmented life phases and of inherent tension in an organization between profit and “doing good.” This recognition has inspired us to seek roles in the future that... View Details