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  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

http://www.amazon.com/Business-History-Elgar-Walter-Friedman/dp/1781955263/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389789862&sr=1-2&keywords=Business+History+Jones+and+Friedman August 2013 Management Science The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

her course for Harvard MBA students, Managing Service Operations, which explores interactions between firms and customers. Defy Conventional Wisdom Commerce Bank entered a mature industry where the overall level of customer satisfaction... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors.   Working Papers Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

analysis that went into building the strategy. Students will gain exposure to concepts around firm strategy, portfolio construction, risk management, marketing, and impact investing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

New Releases

can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond and her colleagues. "Now View Details
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • News

A Walkabout to the Ocean

environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details
Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Facing the Board

began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

to be taken for granted, regardless of their efficiency implications. However, the institutional perspective does not address the fundamental issue of business strategy necessary to explain the persistence of substantially different strategies among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto

wanted to be able to experiment and take career risks and HBS seemed to allow me to do that through the 2+2 program. The second reason I applied to HBS is because it felt like there was zero downside. In fact, the way I thought about it... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2014
  • News

Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

harder than her male classmates to succeed. From her father, a Hungarian immigrant with no business training who bought New York City's Chelsea Hotel and turned it into one of the Big Apple's most famous addresses, she learned to take View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

show that overall creditor recovery rates are higher, and unsecured creditor recoveries and post-bankruptcy survival rates are not different when bankrupt firms sell businesses as going concerns. Download working paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer for whom it is produced. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely unexamined. We explore this dimension of volume-based learning in a setting where doctors at an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

superior economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-110.pdf Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract We study how trade policy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace