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  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

At the same time, shareholders and some debt holders will suffer losses, since their securities will no longer have value. Second, Congress dramatically reduced the risk of trading financial derivatives by requiring most of them to go through a View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

that are more responsible socially and environmentally. Q: How prevalent are vanguard companies? A small parade? A: It's a growing parade, but it's not clear yet whether they are the exception or the rule—that's true of every change. And... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

clear that what the Bank and other development agencies were doing was not reducing poverty. In some instances it was actually making it worse by sustaining the political and social arrangements that caused poverty, while increasing the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

need to clear paths through bureaucracy, weed out weak ideas, and maximize the organization's learning from failure. Though points of view varied, the theories and frameworks explored advance the understanding of creativity in business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism By: Chatterji, Aaron, and Michael Toffel Abstract—When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

profit. This much is clear and part of everyday commercial language. But interestingly, there is no common phrase for the spread between customer value and price. Economists call this "surplus," a word that suggests it is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

health-economics literature has done a better job documenting consumer-choice mistakes in insurance and treatment choices than explaining why those mistakes occur, it is clear that we should not ignore these mistakes in our analyses. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Blackstone Group, estimated that in the next four years this would result in Intelenet losing $160 million of revenue and $48 million of EBITDA. Blackstone could either channel large amounts of capital and human resources towards renewing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

has Apple had such a difficult job growing beyond the Mac? A: Apple is a computer company, and Jobs has always understood that his core franchise was very closely connected to the core computer franchise. Consumer electronics products, for example, are sold through... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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