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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

treasurer. And I am doing that because — as I will argue on this page — we HBS alums are by now almost all Democrats. (Moderate Dems to be sure, but Democrats.) Some of us (very possibly you, dear reader) just don’t know it. Your View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Article

Strategic Management of Product Recovery

By: Michael W. Toffel
Manufacturers of an expanding range of durable products are facing regulatory and market pressures to manage the products they manufactured upon their end of life (EOL). In part, this attention is motivated by a growing number of countries—especially across Europe and... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Government Legislation; Logistics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Europe; Asia; United States
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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, stock View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Alison Wood Brooks Associate Professor, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Prithwiraj Choudhury Associate Professor, Technology & Operations Management Marco Di Maggio Associate Professor, Finance Joshua... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

world's problems today. The past few decades have seen a shift in the development and relief industry to incorporate a rights-based approach to programs and services. In addition, the ability to solve hunger, for example, requires advocating for View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling - MBA

my HBS essay: “According to The New York Times, Bollywood is viewed as an industry that can successfully market its wares only to those within India and its diaspora. This is a shame because the messages in Hindi cinema are universal, and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration

By: Marco Tabellini
Between 1915 and 1930, during the First Great Migration, more than 1.5 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North of the United States, altering the racial profile of several northern cities for the first time in American history. I exploit this... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Race; City; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; History; United States
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  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2009 (Revised December 2011)
  • Case

Colbún—Powering Chile

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Gustavo A. Herrero and Sanjay Patnaik
This case is about Colbún, Chile's second largest electricity generator, which is facing significant uncertainty regarding the cost and availability of alternative energy sources. Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices,... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Government Relations; Climate Change; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Chile
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) - MBA

anxiety around cost initially. But when you go through recruiting in your first year, you start to understand the job market and what you’ll be making after graduation and realize you will be able to pay off your debt. As I got closer to... View Details
  • December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?

Was the public or the private sector best positioned to provide security and baggage screening services? The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the plane crash outside Pittsburgh, marked September 11, 2001, as the date of the most severe... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; National Security; Air Transportation; State Ownership; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

facilities. Frederick William Martin HBS MBA 1924 Yazoo City, MS Talladega College, 1921 Fred W. Martin earned his MBA in 1924 and entered the fields of politics and journalism. Martin founded Jersey City's first Black newspaper, the New... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Golden Revolving Door

By: Ling Cen, Lauren Cohen, Jing Wu and Fan Zhang
Using both the onset of the US-China trade war in 2018 and the most recent Russia-Ukraine war and associated trade tensions, we show a counterintuitive pattern in global trade. Namely, while the average firm trading with these nations significantly decreases their... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Business and Government Relations; International Relations
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  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Psychology and Financial Fragility By: Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman