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Michael R. Bloomberg
the most important to me is that life expectancy in New York City has grown three years since I took office in 2002 and is now 2.2 years greater than the national average.” As an entrepreneur, Bloomberg took particular interest in New... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
with people being badly intentioned. It's literally, if you don't see a lot of women as entrepreneurs, as business leaders, you just don't expect that when you see them in that context that that's what they are. And so I think that's... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
themselves when you least expect them. What you have to be willing to do is take the risk.” In 1983, Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi (JD/MBA 1979) was working as a corporate lawyer when First Boston asked the Nigerian native to provide consulting... View Details
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
puzzle," writes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, with coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete? How has this book been received in Japan? Perhaps I'm not the most objective person to answer that question ... but we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his... View Details
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
these technological waves, the imperative to reskill—through training programs designed to facilitate the transition from obsolete to in-demand occupations—has gained prominence, particularly in response to the rise of new AI-based... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
anti-inflationary stance, while the more recent decrease in bond risks after 1997 is attributed primarily to an increase in the persistence of monetary policy interacting with continued shocks to the central bank's inflation target. Endogenous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
first vaccine candidate to move into Phase II clinical trials—a prophylactic against cytomegalovirus, a common virus that has little effect on healthy adults but severe consequences for infants and those with compromised immune systems. Bancel View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
comparable economics, they need to get a huge premium. Steve's response is that they don't have to get Microsoft's economics. They can do much worse than Microsoft's economics and still have a good business. The problem is that even at a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social and financial goals at the same time. Social enterprises have a great deal of experience dealing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Since free agency, the quarterback’s requisite skill set has undoubtedly increased. The quarterback position requires significant preparation—a quarterback needs to know not only how to do his own job but also, “he has to know the View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Peru. Later, Lewis decided to pursue a career in business, prompting him to apply to HBS. LEWIS: I was expecting Harvard University to be a more racially diverse campus, but because the location of HBS was isolated from the undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
consortium has produced a research road map initially emphasizing the Alzheimer’s Genome Project, which exclusively focuses on identifying the remaining genes believed responsible for the disease (four have already been identified), and... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
support is the "meta-product" under which all aspects of commerce are subsumed. Deep support means "getting my life back." In order to provide this, deep support means that commercial entities absorb both accountability and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne