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- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
conclude, after one century of banking crisis this is the best of times for Mexican banking. Publisher's link: http://www.library.hbs.edu/forms/purchaseform/ November 2014 Journal of Competition Law & Economics Leveraging Market Power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Note on Human Behavior: Character and Situation Harvard Business School Note 404-091 When we think of human behavior, especially from a moral perspective, we are often drawn to explanations that rest on character. In simple terms, we conclude that virtuous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
companies to recruit qualified managers. “We help people who are looking to return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, the high GDPs, and the need for management talent, but who aren’t sure how to go about... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
has supply chain management become such a hot topic in recent years? Shapiro: Changes in five factors are largely responsible for the increased attention. I'll quickly list them and then talk about each. Information technology Visibility of best practices Consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Drawing on her left- and right-brain strengths, Grace Ng (MBA 2019) double-majored in economics and film at Rice University. “That might seem unusual to some, but I found having these two interests... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Business Review To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Hoffeld Abstract—This article discusses what behavioral research does and does not tell us about factors that aid the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
startups, led the panelists through a meaningful discussion that touched on their various experiences with building and scaling a tech company during the pandemic and now, during a time of great economic uncertainty and creeping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
if unsuccessful, would have little economic impact. Little did Congress realize that true believers in deregulation, like Alfred Kahn, a Cornell economics professor whom Carter had appointed as chairman of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
from mistreatment. The solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
"get excited"), which lead them to feel more excited, adopt an opportunity mindset (as opposed to a threat mindset), and improve their subsequent performance. These findings suggest the importance of arousal congruency during the emotional reappraisal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
businesses cannot by themselves set the rules of the game. They face short-term economic pressures just like households, and their ability unilaterally to change their behavior is limited by dysfunctional... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to do just that.... View Details
- 22 Jul 2016
- News
Let’s Talk Dating
25 are dating. We are just not talking about it,” Kapoor told The Economic Times. Addressing Tinder’s reputation as a “hookup” app for casual sex, Kapoor noted that she and her husband (whom she met through a blog she kept as an... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
customers routinely selected cards that although profitable for the bank could be a poor fit for customers’ needs—leading to low satisfaction scores, cancellations, and occasionally, financial distress. To that end, the company’s View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman