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- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
the significant risks, what that risk could do to the protection of capital, and a whole variety of other factors. And those of us who constituted what we now call the investment committee, not just me... At that point the View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. "We maintained that conservation could actually contribute to domestic economic growth - with less risk from the disturbances in the international oil markets," he says.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
the strategic significance of adjustment costs in technology adoption, both within and beyond the firm boundary. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1618840 Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
matter the most in your industry, and look at them not just as difficulties to be overcome but also as potential sources of value creation. Which Countries Are The Most Business Friendly? Handicapping the Best Countries for Business India? South Africa? Russia? Which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
BP's Macondo: Spill and Response
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo oil spill, noting that BP, its partners and the government all made decisions that helped cause the accident. It then discusses the response to this spill by BP and the... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Metals and Minerals; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Trade; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Rotemberg, Julio J. "BP's Macondo: Spill and Response." Harvard Business School Case 711-021, September 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
http://www.amazon.com/Business-History-Elgar-Walter-Friedman/dp/1781955263/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389789862&sr=1-2&keywords=Business+History+Jones+and+Friedman August 2013 Management Science The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and suffered in great part due to... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
on the island of Nantucket off Massachusetts, serves more than 1,000 children, adults, and veterans every year. “I’m a firm believer in growing only as fast as you can control the quality of your product,” says Callahan. “We’ve served... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
analysis that went into building the strategy. Students will gain exposure to concepts around firm strategy, portfolio construction, risk management, marketing, and impact investing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
list of every loan in the works, discussing risk factors, the market, and local politics. “That’s always an interesting meeting for me, since I used to be on the borrower’s side at my job in Houston.” Oakes says that before she heard... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond and her colleagues. "Now View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Garvin and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 311-008 In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
"welcome officer"; generate a list of alumni working at top search firms and distribute the list to clubs to enhance their career resources; and include all club officers in e-mails that are sent to club presidents. Global Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
opportunity to drive innovative environmental policy, Professor Michael W. Toffel told an audience of HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni at the University Club of Washington DC, on February 12, 2020. “The traditional approach View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
regulators and bank examiners are inconsistent, which leads to confusion and an aversion to taking on more risk from bankers. During the most difficult part of the crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued guidance... View Details