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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
than $50,000. Prieto would share conducting duties that night with the previous music director. “Carlos had the absolute right to walk,” says Hugh Long, president of the LPO governing board. Prieto’s contract stipulated that if either... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
push both proprietary and shared platforms toward hybrid governance models characterized by centralized control over platform technology (i.e., closed sponsorship) and shared responsibility for serving users... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School shared advice for nonprofits facing dire financial challenges. How can donors support social impact organizations through a recession? Michael Chu: Support proven organizations with... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial market participation affects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
but for the team's work process and ultimately the client—that the experiment was expanded to more and more of BCG's teams. Four years later, over nine hundred BCG teams from thirty countries on five continents had participated. Sleeping with Your Smartphone View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success, a story that has seen revenues multiply, share prices jump many times, and customer satisfaction become an industry benchmark. The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
obsessively followed changes in the business world. His correspondence with Hugo Stinnes (another famous German entrepreneur) showed how much he paid attention to the business world around him. They could quote steel prices for every... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
within a month of the lockdown measures, the quantity of sales increased compared to 2019. Within another month, so did spending despite prices that were lower in 2020. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/XBQbLP9RLLcsSnqH7Ffb][/div]... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
company hopes to create and share a new business model. If successful, the model can be copied by other social entrepreneurs with a market-based pricing scheme to provide other forms of infrastructure in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
its new product, the mainframe computer, to capture close to 80 percent of the world's markets. On the basis of the continuing learning and high financial returns, IBM developed its System 360, which in terms of prices charged and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
economy.” They don’t know the inner workings, but “what are the interest rates?” They have high sensitivity to transactions and to partners, because everything’s a bespoke, one-off transaction. Typically, people like this also see the View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Graphics, recalls that her Entrepreneurial Marketing classmates included cross-registrants from Harvard's schools of education and government as well as students from Stanford's School of Engineering Management. All of these students were taught many cases concurrently... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details