Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,349) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,349) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 49 of 1,349 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

BUA Group

By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
Related
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

require a shift in the traditional philanthropy mindset, Hamermesh says, from funding the construction of a new cancer pavilion to financing the development of specific therapies for cancer subtypes—a less visible, but potentially more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

Buildings Authors:Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Wheeler. "Even after making a good deal, people wonder if they could have done better." Such self-doubt is a costly distraction. "It gets in the way of constructive engagement and relationship-building." Staying In The Game Being centered... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

high-tech firms. In 2004, however, the cap expired, and the limit fell back to 65,000. As might be expected, there was an increase of lobbying on the issue following the decrease as companies tried to get the cap raised once again. To quantify these dynamics, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

particular, we find that elite institutions in Vietnam encourage the construction of broader policy-making coalitions, have more competitive selection processes, and place more constraints on executive decision making than exists by way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

construct narratives explaining the dynamics of three nascent technical systems: early aircraft, high-speed steel in machine tools, and container shipping. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55140... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

attention trying to figure out ways to fight this battle. Q: Could you summarize your results? A: First of all, let us make a caveat regarding our approach. Our methodology is formal economic modelling. What this means is that we View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

growth of green building and over its 25-year history had become a powerful brand in the construction sector with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Nonetheless, USGBC faced two significant challenges... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

adviser. Intellectual property based on the science, which offered a radical way to construct lithium-ion batteries that promised higher energy densities, was licensed from MIT. The concept for the company was based on laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2008 (Revised January 2015)
  • Teaching Note

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [209012]. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Planning; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Design; Property; Opportunities; Legal Liability; Real Estate Industry; Mexico
Related
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information

By: Gunther Glenk
Companies are increasingly viewed as crucial drivers for timely decarbonization. Current accounting practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, however, often leave corporate carbon disclosures and abatement obscured. Here I introduce a taxonomy for assuring the... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Decarbonization; Carbon Accounting; Net-zero Emissions; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Environment; Environmental Impact; Management; Sustainable Cities; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Related
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

evidence, we construct firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries from a unique dataset. Our empirical analysis, which exploits both cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs, provides strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

School Case 207-028 In 1980, Thomas J. Klutznick, president of a Chicago-based development company, was considering whether he should build a Class A building on a second-rate site outside the Central Loop or not. He had a promising design, but the economic conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

and Entrepreneurship Institutional Innovation: Novel, Useful, and Legitimate By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—This chapter advances the theoretical construct of institutional innovation, which we define as novel, useful,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

macro components. The micro component comes from the selection of low beta stocks. The macro component comes from the selection of low beta countries or industries. The two parts both contribute to the low beta anomaly, with important implications for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

  PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

businesses that we study at HBS work in the context of a larger political economy. Consumer finance businesses, in particular, more so than many others, operate under substantial regulatory and legal scrutiny, and for good reasons. As it turns out, those legal and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web