Dynamic Causal Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

“The case documents a fascinating dynamic between index investors, who are true long-term investors, and this breed of investment funds focused on creating value by promoting change at the corporate level,” Viceira says. As the case... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

participants understand how to orient their businesses in increasingly dynamic markets and provides strategies to help them recognize and respond to threats in the marketplace. Simons and Professor Michael Tushman share the topic of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

game, right? I believe they can. People in the industry must be dynamic and pay attention to what’s happening around them. I’m a learner by nature, so if I’m a company, I’d want to hear from retail investors or any new cohort beginning to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th Annual Dynamic Women in Business... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Jun 2005
News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Initiative at the Bok Center is currently partnering with FAS academic departments, staff, and other Harvard partners to develop ways that the methods of theatre can act as vehicles for maximizing effective pedagogy. The Applied... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

for the limitless possibilities associated with California and the West. And in keeping with the entrepreneurial dynamism that is so much a part of today's information technology explosion, "the City by the Bay" has always been a magnet... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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Print View - Course Catalog

course is to learn to use well-researched causal theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in businesses, and to predict which tools, strategies, and methods will and will not be... View Details

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

started FairMarket three years ago. My take on where the market was heading three years ago was similar to Glen's: that dynamic pricing was going to be a significant market opportunity where buyers and sellers could come together and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

effectively by teaching them to interrupt unwanted impulses and bringing them to a state of mindfulness before the impulses turn into action. The Awkward Ozarker: A Curious Tale of Self-Reinvention in a Scantily Settled Land by Blant Hurt... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

business lending market. This ambitious book grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles, and the policy implications for regulation.... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

positions. Worse still, many businesses were based on concessions from local dictators. This had the effect of reinforcing local institutional constraints on domestic entrepreneurship rather than removing them. There was the more general... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

to complete the manuscript of Silent Spring, which documents the effects of pesticides such as DDT on the environment and the campaign of misinformation surrounding their use. “Leaders are obligated...to translate information into... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing... View Details