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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

chain partners. This should help small business and stimulate increased consumer spending on local services. Innovation is a Biden theme, one of the pillars of his campaign, which he also applied to addressing racial disparities in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • News

The Dragon’s Tale

capital for midsized companies. Because capital raising is controlled by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow banking sector. What is your view of the wide View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

individual. This article offers a critical review of this rich yet disparate literature and guides research toward a multilevel theory of imprinting. We start with a definition that captures the general features of imprinting across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds Author:Peter Tufano Abstract This paper reports the results of a 2007 experiment testing if specific process simplification can enhance savings by low-to-moderate income (LMI)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World War to its handover... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

media environment controlled by the Chinese government. At the same time, this case offers insights into the structure of the highly fragmented Chinese consumers market, exploring the socio-economic disparities in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

objective was "to gain insight into hospital problems in order to serve them better," in a market where service would make the difference since price disparities were rapidly vanishing due to increasing competition. The candid... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

everyone everywhere in the world in unprecedented ways and the consequences are real,” says incoming HBS MBA student Isha Khambra, a member of the Students Fight COVID initiative. “Despite these challenges we—now and in the past—have seen... View Details