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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it’s also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a banking crisis and general View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
pre-pandemic times. We will all be forever changed by this experience, and the transition to a post-pandemic world will be a slow and rocky one that will bring challenges and stressors. Some of your employees will return to work grieving the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
about the idea of the global economy returning to "business as usual." On the HBS Working Knowledge Web portal, Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett asked readers reflecting on September 11 to ponder "the implications of a possible loss of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A) Faced with the imminent loss of 40% of its revenues due to patent expirations, pharma giant Eli Lilly sets out on a dramatic transformation process in 2009. The case considers how Lilly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
U.S. consumers. Despite years of offering samples to consumers, modifications to the naming and packaging design, the addition of new flavors, changes in the supermarkets where it placed its product, and offering retailers slotting fees—sales were well below... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
reactions at appointment and loss of fewer subsequent directorships. Nondisclosure of directorships is significantly reduced following changes to SEC rules, with the greatest change being for adverse-event directorships. These findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
fall of 2011. It was slowly revealed that the 92-year-old camera and medical photo-imaging company, Olympus, had been hiding its losses for more than a decade-to the tune of $1.7 billion-long before the current economic pressures, slow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
liability standards, Feuerstein ended up spending more money than he had. And the company went bankrupt. View VideoA middle-aged worker whose job was replaced by automation reflects on how the loss changed her life. As with many HBS... View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
Let’s be grateful that we are alive! People who are young tend to take this for granted, but amid the horrific losses so many families are experiencing right now, let's remember that life itself is a blessing. Let’s be grateful that,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
companies, and this is where we’re seeing more segregation. So, we made gains in some companies, but overall have seen a loss in diversity. That’s problematic.” The connection between racial segregation and wage inequality The authors are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
would take 30 days. Bush apparently concluded that GM would not fail during the remaining days of his watch, and Obama was not willing to see the US auto sector implode as a result of the bankruptcy of GM. Studies showed that the loss of... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, absenteeism from workers diagnosed with depression costs US workplaces an estimated $23 billion annually in lost productivity. That number, however, only calculates losses based on days employees... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
lead to a boom and bust in mortgage credit, like the recent crisis, resulting in large losses on government guarantees. Another concern might be that the government-owned corporation could be pressured to expand its footprint even in... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
Jackson pricing strategy is another example of labels trying to protect themselves from the losses associated with unbundling, and rethinking what a bundle is. I think we will see a lot of experiments with different formats. Q: Earlier... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
philanthropy in the creation of high-performing schools, which they have been able to replicate with high degrees of fidelity." Cutting Losses Unfettered by oversight from a local school board, most charters are authorized by state boards... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
became robust again during the '80s — reported losses approaching half a billion dollars between 1990 and 1994. But that tide is changing, says BC's amiable chairman George Harad, who became CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1995. Harad has... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
examine attitudes towards two critical phases of conflict termination—a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We examine the rigidity/flexibility of refugees’ attitudes to see if subtle changes in how wartime losses are framed or in who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
they cut their losses and leave Japan, or could they learn from mistakes and turn things around? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/vodafone-in-japan-b/an/711469-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 711-470 Vodafone in Japan (C)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne