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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Toughest Challenges Author:Andrew McAfee Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Web 2.0 is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930 Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan Abstract Our paper provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair values to areas such as intangibles where they could be used opportunistically. We conclude that rather than converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
of about 25 years before being scrapped, are ordered through shipyards and take two or three years to build. About 10 percent of the fleet is bought and sold on the secondary... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
firm boundary. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-104.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe HLB Turnaround Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
Enron case should not be taken as a one-off judgment by a business school professor. Many years ago, at the dedication of the Harvard Business School campus on June 24, 1927, Owen Young—a lawyer, visionary... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets but caution against expanding fair values to financial reporting more generally. We conclude that rather than converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1603484 October 2014 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
participants have led higher-ambition efforts at their companies for years. Office supply company United Stationers started a foundation to connect employees with charitable activities, including raising money for a children's hospital View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
in India and outline both quantitative and qualitative evidence from 42 Indian state-owned laboratories to support this argument. August 2013 Journal of Economic History Colonial Institutions, Commodity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
the continued success of the multi-sourcing strategy, including restructuring the IT group, developing the skills of its staff, and starting a captive center. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815002-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
economic expansions. It is also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
scholars, and business historians. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones%20%20Friedman%20Flyer.pdf The Future of Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch ed. Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Investindustrial's team had the following exit alternatives: 1) a trade sale to an automotive buyer; 2) a secondary buyout, partial or complete, by a financial investor; 3) a relisting in Hong Kong. Each option had its pros View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
provide a track for professionally trained VCs; the Kauffman Fellows program brought top flight MBAs, both men and women, together with sponsoring VC firms. Its primary goal was to provide a new avenue for recruiting View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
and Organizational Issues Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Note 812-100 This note discusses the organizational challenges that startups... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
greater risk and thus affects resource allocation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne