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- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
employees and less than 3 percent to investors. Compared with the preceding decade of the 80s, customers enjoyed the benefits of low inflation while corporations suffered lower rates of increase in profits and investors received lower inflation-adjusted rates of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS
management consulting fostering gender equity through Women@BCG. After HBS, she plans to focus her career on promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workforce. When Erica was considering pursuing her MBA, she discovered that she was... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
you're trying to promote yourself, and then there's also a complaint," Gino says. "And so we separated them out to try to understand which one would win—in terms of being liked and having people be willing to help you out." The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
volumes and the customer experience and net promoter score (NPS) that’s most contingent on happy outcomes for well-handled, urgent calls. For me, this is choice three, going... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
cheapest and most effective form of marketing, but it’s also the best signal that you actually have a good product that people want. Don’t know what your net promoter score is... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
private money from insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, sovereign funds, and high net worth individuals currently invested in global fixed income securities, mostly earning near zero real yields. How can this capital find... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies, only 2.6 percent of CEOs are... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
trading partners were also winners, receiving excellent value in the goods they imported from Japan. Other nations, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as Hong Kong, have followed Japan's example with excellent results. The Japanese model of mercantile... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
understanding of their distant colleagues, while reflected knowledge promoted feelings of being understood. We discuss implications of reflected knowledge to theories of trust and interpersonal dynamics in globally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet - Blog - Business & Environment
Net Zero IFC India 2025: Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero MBA Teaching & Research News Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Emergency Medicine What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles By: Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John Abstract—Study... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office whose walls are lined with posters and photos from scores of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
Above: The Ario Lamp parallels the sun’s schedule. (Courtesy Ario) Ario is a smart lighting company in the Bay Area whose lamp changes light direction and color dynamically throughout the day, promoting better health. The shifts in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
privatization have created unprecedented opportunities for firms of all sizes and varieties to compete in larger markets than ever before. In the process, a handful of global organizations have risen to replace formerly state-owned enterprises, while View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
sauces for entrepreneurial ecosystems: the creation and the role angels play in funding companies. Technology-enabled crowdfunding provides entrepreneurs a wider access to capital. ©iStock/merznatalia There’s been relatively little work on angels, primarily because... View Details
- Fast Answer
Global Climate Change
to an information request sent by CDP on behalf of its signatory investors. Datasets include Climate Change Data, Supply Chain Data, Water Data, Forests Data, and CDP Scores Data. Data, documentation and reports are in Dataverse and are... View Details