Filter Results:
(1,573)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,573)
- Faculty Publications (472)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,573)
- Faculty Publications (472)
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
linkages with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach of many. Today, the View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
country unit to adjust to local needs is a critical balancing act. Rule 4: Timing is critical. Retailers would do well to stop planting flags and focus instead on a limited set of opportunities where they can establish operations of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re locally relevant. We have to build... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Priorities Including Financial Aid An easy way for all alumni to support financial aid is through the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund play a critical role in the School’s ability to meet the growing View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
paragraphs to Google, which, by 2001, already was the 15th largest website in the United States. Despite this traffic, Google’s ecosystem impact was still modest at the time. The company was still a year away from adopting the paid search... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
volunteering if this history is public rather than private. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
from consumers shopping at the more popular store. Second, the intermediary may have an incentive to degrade the quality of search even further when its design decision influences the prices charged by stores. By altering the composition of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
among historians and scholars from other disciplines who are taking a historical approach to their work has demanded intellectual leadership. Al Chandler has provided that leadership for more than forty years. Early in his career, he... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
were published in the paper, Financial vs. Strategic Buyers. The research team first scoured data of private equity firms in the United States that had set out to buy underperforming companies and turn them around—with the goal of a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
How would you advise them? Leemore Dafny: What I’d say is something that holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
bankruptcy court protection in November 2008 despite high advance demand for its planes. In January, a judge approved the sale of Eclipse’s assets to Eclipse Jet Aviation International, an affiliate of Luxembourg-based European Technology... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Harvard President Drew Faust herself noted at the start of the conference, women are still underrepresented at the top levels of government and business, both in the United States and abroad. Only 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women;... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
Hwang, M.D. (HBS MBA '06), the most essential innovations begin with simplicity and accessibility. As they note in the book excerpt below, Toyota made a name for itself in the United States first with a Corona; the far more ambitious... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
2025, Section F), Summer Internship: Supply Chain Intern, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) The world needs a fundamentally new source of clean energy to meet our growing energy demands and combat climate change. Scientists have been... View Details