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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Might I Suggest We also reached out to alumni on social media to ask about the books and podcasts that have been keeping them most informed and best entertained over the last year. My sectionmate Wendy Lim (MBA 2006) told me that she read... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
emissions price than domestic producers, with the number of foreign entrants increasing in emissions price only over intervals where foreign firms hold this technology advantage. Further, domestic firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
place in the private sector, the owners would probably hold the stock until the company was in robust health. The realized price on the stock would then in all likelihood be higher. But the Obama administration has made it clear that as a... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
the middle class in the past with Uber’s small middle class core corps of engineers and large “army of owner drivers treated and priced out like commodities.” Others concentrated on ways of achieving a return to the middle class of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
setting: TV broadcast station entry into local newspaper markets from 1945 to 1963. We show that after a TV station enters the newspaper market, newspaper firms with more multi-homing consumers had higher subscription prices, circulation,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
shareholders to get the best price." In the experience I related, the board decided that the 20 percent discount involved in the sale to the desired bidder was just too much. Influenced in part by large shareholders, the board accepted the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
supplemental executive retirement plans, in which up to 100 percent of one's compensation can be deferred into a non-taxable account that gets a guaranteed return that's much higher than, say, the State Treasury fund rate—it's often 9, 10... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
media in addition to founding semi-philanthropic financial institutions that offered loans at favorable rates. 27 Inspired by Europe’s monti di pietà, charitable pawnshops that offered collateral loans at below-market rates, New York’s... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
higher bid determined the winner, neither firm had an inherent advantage. That gave Beshears the apples-to-apples comparison of performance that had long been sought by researchers looking to answer this question of organizational form.... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
amount of money to each,” says Nanda. “Equally important, we wanted to see if they were just investing in a lot of worse firms, or if these long-shot firms were actually higher in value if they succeeded.” The researchers found that the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
percent) and men (45 percent), as well as US (45 percent) and non-US (42 percent) respondents. Social media topped the list of technology adoption priorities across the board. "It was almost as if the respondents had one voice," Groysberg... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
likely than men to play a key "boundary spanning" role in the company. One can think of it like this. If we were to randomly remove an employee from this company's communication network, the odds that this action would cause a communication breakdown between two units... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
researchers also learned that, in some cases, Cook’s activism could potentially lead to increased product sales, although that was not the intent of his opposition. “The people in the group exposed to Cook’s activism, we found, expressed significantly View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
traffic from steamships to railroads serving the same route that declines with route distance, with no change in prices and no evidence of effects on aggregate shipments, likely due to collusion by Southern carriers. Counterfactuals using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
authors caution that results would undoubtedly differ from one group of customers and one product or service to another.] It brings to mind marketing campaigns in the United States for Progressive’s insurance products, in which the Company regularly provides View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
the inner city will require a commitment not only by the government, but also by the private sector, a five-member panel, moderated by Randal Pinkett of the MIT Media Laboratory, told HBS students and alumni. And once the inner city is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman