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- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
redistributive across sectors, as exporters would have tax losses as far as the eye can see and importers would have much larger taxes due, unless exchange rates adjust to neutralize these changes in... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people having them to learn the ingredients that separate a common... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
sees 65 percent turnover, Turkasset became choosy about its employees, hiring less than one in 100 applicants. Once hired, it paid them higher salaries and performed more in-depth training. The investment paid off, dropping the turnover View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using both broad cross-sectional and narrow event-window tests, we find that capital market relationship in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical device company, an apartment listings app, and an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
material exchange in labor relations). Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16621 Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Pérez-Truglia Abstract In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
the rapid growth of world trade as an important factor in the trend toward privatization. "With the considerable increase in the exchange of goods and services," he said, "governments had to be willing to adapt to new... View Details
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
employees seeking advancement by moving to new organizations rather than climbing the internal ladder. Over the last decade, the annual quit rate—a key indicator of voluntary turnover—has steadily increased, peaking during the “Great Resignation” period of 2021 to... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
strong finance and legal teams" as sources of risk aversion. But other respondents concluded that it doesn't have to happen, and proposed antidotes to the phenomenon, starting with David Levine's "list" of "a strong... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit
inputs such as silicon wafers, automated equipment, and skilled labor. This reliance poses a significant risk to Tata Solar’s long-term scalability and self-reliance. Facility optimization is another area of focus. The Bangalore facility,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Schargrodsky, 175-204. National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
actions (distribution browsers with PC purchases) increase the rate of diffusion of browsers into the population, the strategic actions (distribution or restrictions on distribution in the case of Netscape) are twice as important as... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
in the first place: what exactly had caused the brutal financial crisis of 2007-2009? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711104-PDF-ENG China and the Yuan-Dollar Exchange Rate Aldo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and the departure of government innovation officials. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55038 When Does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Stable category meanings act as institutions that facilitate market exchange by providing bases for comparison and valuation. Yet little is known about meaning construction in new categories or how meaning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Accounting Review Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting By: Srinivasan, Suraj, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne