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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Political System Harvard Business School Note 308-063 Offers a detailed overview of the structure and operation of the Chinese political system today. Key issues that are discussed include (1) the relationship between the Communist Party... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
non-value added and redundant steps, improve resource utilization, and redesign care so that appropriate medical resources perform each process step. These actions enable costs to be reduced while maintaining or improving medical outcomes. Better measurements also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
invested $3.5 million and received 80 percent of the equity in the company. Becoming independent also gave the start-up organization the freedom to compete head-on with the internal Xerox development units in Rochester. To their surprise,... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
boosting equity capital requirements at banks. Those tactics might help countries avoid the devastating toll that the 2008 financial crisis exacted and the massive bailouts required to stabilize the system. Doomed to repeat history? If... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
thought could help achieve racial equity at HBS. While things have changed a lot from those early meetings, our work inspired and formed the initial structure of the Dean's Anti-Racism Taskforce (DART). It's been rewarding to see some of... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Photos Courtesy Equitas Advisory Group Photos Courtesy Equitas Advisory Group Just weeks after the death of George Floyd, Susan Harmeling (MBA 1991) and Charles Henderson (MBA 1991) came together for a fireside Zoom chat on diversity, inclusion, and View Details
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
almost 100 years ago. It’s no exaggeration to say that you have probably experienced more innovations during your time as MBA students than most of the classes in the School’s 105-year history. I hope this status gives you a great sense of pioneering pride, as it... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
that accounting research would benefit from a greater focus on the study of causal mechanisms (or causal pathways), increased emphasis on structural modeling of the phenomena of interest, and more in-depth descriptive research. We argue these changes are possible and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Vallée Abstract—Using a large administrative panel of Swedish households, we document the fast and broad adoption of retail structured products, an innovative class of contracts offering non-linear exposures to View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
out. These agents are more likely to alter their electronic currency balance on a day (rebalance). In contrast, agents trained in person but who receive summary statistics of transaction volumes or agents who are notified about the program and not View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
who offer innovative products. Buyers who trust their current suppliers are less likely to seek information about the new product and they express less interest in purchasing it. Once the product becomes available, they do in fact make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
into Japan's most famous, prestigious, and powerful collection of companies (or keiretsu), offering a wide array of products and services, but in the early nineties, Mitsubishi Corporation, the general trading company within that group,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall Street career in private View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal strategy of a profit-maximizing firm,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private equity in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna