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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
the largest corporate donors to principal candidates in closely watched congressional races manage earnings downwards in the two quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election. We find no evidence of such downwards earnings management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
changes in stockouts or rebalances. We observe no evidence of learning or fatigue. Agent-level heterogeneity in the treatment effects shows that the agents who handle substantially more customer deposits than withdrawals benefit most from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset incorporating information on the universe of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative work, especially in settings where intellectual property protection is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
down" response of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Depression era rather than the "bottom up" strategy (involving the purchase of individual properties) of the Resolution Trust of the 1980s. The former returned 100 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized labor may View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
said. "The flatness of the organization gives a lot of opportunity. There’s much fewer people you have to deal with, and I think having fewer people to win over is a valuable thing," Selassie said. But Thomas warned students against expecting View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
specific aspects of a company. It's much easier to get a business to open up about its marketing or logistics work, he said, when it doesn't feel compelled to show its overall corporate strategy. Another group's representative added that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our evidence suggests that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
Meakem: I agree. The benefit of jumping right out is that you don't get cushy; you don't get used to a corporate job with corporate perks and get lulled into submission by... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy stocks. The second effect comes from promises to reduce tax rates... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- May 2024
- Supplement
DRSi (B)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced... View Details
Abstract: In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; Washington (state, US); United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. " DRSi (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-718, May 2024.
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
practical experience in order to benefit from the hard-won lessons of those who have gone before you? What are the various theoretical assumptions and pedagogical techniques you might consider in the process of designing and delivering a... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
the aggregate global production-consumption gap. But any journey begins with one person or corporation taking the first step in the desired direction." Do you agree with White? What do you think? Original Article Inequality, an... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
between financial and strategic buyers. "Just believing that debt markets are overvalued does not imply a benefit to one type of buyer," says Rhodes-Kropf. Rhodes-Kropf says that debt market misvaluation works with what is... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507050 E.ON Corporate Strategy Harvard Business School Case 706-015 Examines the corporate strategy of German energy giant E.ON. The firm is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
identify the conditions under which the well-being benefits of prosociality are most likely to emerge. Finally, we briefly highlight several levers that can be used to increase prosocial behavior, thereby potentially increasing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman