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04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Senior Lecturer John Macomber writes about his recent investigative visits to nascent privately-funded municipalities in Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, SAUDI ARABIA—Two days before Thanksgiving, I'm standing at the View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

loving family” As with the work that won the Nobel Prize, “with Wagaroo, we’re trying to solve some standard economic problems related to market design,” says Exley, who joined the Harvard Business School faculty in June, as an assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal, says Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Abstract— We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

any other course, it teaches humility," says MacCormack. "The best lessons come when students say, 'I was convinced that the problem was this, and it wasn't.' If they end up presenting to a global... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and find that adverse selection View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique circumstances presented by the cessation... View Details

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

other oftentimes gets lost. So I want it to be a two way street. And they were so happy with that. They said, you know what, if we get this going, we could probably live together, and there's so many things that we could do. And they and... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

ended up placing several players there, and within a matter of a couple years, all of a sudden I found that I had about three dozen players in maybe 10 different countries. And then calls started coming in. Remember, this is before emails... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs might look at bonds and equities in a very different light: They may value the fact that, regardless of their short-term fluctuations in prices, bonds offer a safe stream of cash flows—their coupons, and their principal at the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee Responsibilities at Scale: What Can We Learn from Google? Review and Self-Reflection Featured Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify View Details

21 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

in choosing between a traditional mode (where the firm takes control of service provision) and a platform mode (where professionals retain control over service provision). The choice of mode is determined by the need to balance two-sided moral hazard View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

had problems on the stage and became violent, they would put him into jail instead of in a hospital. So his run goes from maybe 1895 through 1906. He maybe gets 10 or 11 years of creativity and by Labor Day 1906 he's committed to the... View Details

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

Walmart, and Etsy ate that part of Amazon’s lunch that Amazon couldn’t finish. One problem for Amazon was its inability to meet the tremendous demand surge for online services and products. Its stockouts increased and delivery times... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

reimagined what it looks like in the online world, Anand said. HBX opted for active, edge-of-the-seat learning by including short video lectures and cases mapped out through videos in which people describe business problems while... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

17 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty

their sabbaticals, all three of the founders ended up leaving the firm voluntarily (and happily.) Summit persisted and has thrived, countering the belief that all turnover - especially among founders - is detrimental to company... View Details

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

But it isn't easy. It requires that carefully-selected individuals possessing deep smarts devote significant amounts of time to the coaching of a self-selected protégé by creating a learning process that the authors term "guided experience" (including... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth... View Details

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