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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
scenario-based experiments. Our results suggest that longer-tenured and more successful employees face a greater loss of self-esteem from negative social comparisons and are more likely to engage in deception in response to reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
all these benefits come faster and more naturally. Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Literature By Zibby Owens (MBA 2003) Little A Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
national security, and increased competition for land. The $1 trillion global financial loss is staggering. Despite these challenges, the authors call attention to the extraordinary social and environmental opportunities created by... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
reducing inventory costs (defined here as the sum of stockout losses and cost of capital associated with holding inventory). The heuristic increased estimated agent profits by 15% relative to profits realized through agents actual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-073 Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture Entrepreneurial Finance Lab provides credit-scoring services in developing countries using psychometric assessment, but the potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
King shareholders, but the merger does not look likely to be approved by Mylan shareholders, who must vote upon it. If Perry can swing the voting in favor of the deal, it will gain handsomely on its King shares without facing any corresponding View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
particularly in venture-funded companies where investors seek to protect their intellectual property. It might seem that Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) would guard against the loss of trade secrets and other IP, but such agreements are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
'78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real estate syndicators essentially sold tax losses to their well-heeled clients. Savings and... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
which reduced air loss and prevented compression, resulting in greater protection. This saran "barrier coating" had been a key sales point that Sealed Air emphasized to its customers. Low-cost competitors had begun offering an... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in interest rates cause bond prices to fall. This loss is largest... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
differed from all other bubble products in that the interior of each bubble was coated with saran, which reduced air loss and prevented compression, resulting in greater protection. This saran “barrier coating” had been a key sales point... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
School is at an inflection point, an 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... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
throughout the fourth quarter of 2008, Merrill's financial condition deteriorated at an alarming rate, with expected 4Q08 losses ballooning from $5.3 billion in November to over $12 billion by mid-December. Shareholders of both companies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2015 Address | About
temperatures of 110 degrees in the summer. As an adult, he ran a company that electrified India, and while he certainly took a keen interest in profits and losses and creating jobs, he was driven by the sense that his company was making... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9889.html Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss Authors:David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
accountability, or group norms; their long-standing relationships and trust help them make an impact very quickly. Of course, the process is not without risks: A failed lift out can lead to loss of money, opportunity, credibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
perspective, and helps stimulate ideas and connections that I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Three books on the meaning of dignity and loss and sacrifice that I return to often are When the Legends Die: The Timeless Coming-of-Age... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
of firms as entrants "steal" business from incumbents. When firms face input scarcity, in contrast, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
investments—and make hard choices, often under pressure, since delay frequently means loss of a competitive edge. They work collaboratively, since critical decisions usually involve diverse groups and departments. And they discuss their... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been... View Details