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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team of three MBA 2003 students, Steven Carden, Hank Midgley, and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and Memphis over 200. The implementation of the strategy in these districts must be purposefully differentiated to be effective across so many schools. All of our districts have projects underway to improve their data collection and View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

is not much historical data and experience for managers to draw upon when developing or applying metrics, and many economic benefits of e-commerce projects are seen as difficult to measure. Further, the pace of change in e-business and... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 05 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

might not expect prices to increase very much.” Helpful for M&A analysis As part of their study, MacKay and Remer used market-share data to develop a statistical model that would allow antitrust... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

Education reunion attendees and found that while only subtle changes were needed to improve the MBA reunion experience, the Executive Education model should be addressed more closely. The committee’s recommendation was to undertake a full View Details
Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Bennett, Victor Manuel, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions for future research. 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

your comments published in an upcoming issue of HBS Working Knowledge—it will cost you $6.00 to download the full story from HBR. See details below. For two years, U.S.-based DataClear has all but had a stranglehold on the data View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

investors. Indeed, back in 2014, Jigar Shah, then founder of SunEdison (now Director of U.S. DOE Loan Programs Office and recent guest on HBS’s Climate Rising Podcast), posited that climate is the largest wealth creation opportunity of our generation. If that’s true,... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge The current rescue package might end up being more expensive for the American taxpayer, he added, because the guaranteed loans are forgivable under certain conditions. Researchers used detailed small- and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

analysis of the organization so that significant changes can be made based on what comes to light." Organizational fitness is based on the premise that an organization is a system. "You can't change all its elements... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

compared to other IPOs and the market at large. The analysis found flips underperformed the S&P 500 by 5 percent in the following three years. Lerner believes that problems with quick flips occur because of the short period that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-089.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace