Class of 2010 - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

meet the cash flow crunch that prevents children from staying in school past Class V, and vocational education to ensure that the formal education they receive is complemented with more immediately income-generating skills. Our program is... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

like Atul Gawande, US health care may be in the process of discovering management. Of course, hospital administration has been with us as long as hospitals. But the administrator has always been a second... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

relative measurement-error variances. We develop a parsimonious evaluation framework that empirically estimates a given ERP’s cross-sectional and time-series measurement-error variances. We then apply this framework to five classes View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it The GOP tax scam is not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs. It is a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in our nation. And it betrays the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

Working Papers Competition As Strategic Interaction By: Eisenhardt, Kathleen, Rory McDonald, and Cheng Gao Abstract—Strategic interaction has been a topic of scholarly inquiry dating back to the 1960s. Drawing on several seminal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

administration system so that pension funds could both accept significant amounts of retirement funds from workers and manage and invest those funds in a transparent and safe structure. One of the asset... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

and Kagan Tumer Periodical:Applied Economics Research Bulletin (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper 08-064.) Abstract We describe an auction mechanism in the class View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

opportunity to attend Professor Richard Tedlow's elective class, "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism." Anyone who has attended this class would, I think, agree that it is the kind View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

vehicle at the $2,500 price level to address the needs of the emerging middle class in India. At the same time, Ratan Tata has challenged his companies to think globally. They have done a large number View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

Coca-Cola put its collective mind to something, it got it done. Apparently, not so fast. Current and former Coca-Cola executives cited several factors that in 2010 began to erode the once-expanding proportion View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

2014 report from Boston Consulting Group, some two-thirds of total growth in the grocery sector has come from "responsible consumption" products. For example, organic grocer Whole Foods' annual revenues have increased steadily in the past... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

your subject. A: The reason I love consumer marketing so much is that it's really the study of human behavior. Why do people buy and consume? Why do they have preferences? Of all the business disciplines,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

resolution and negotiation classes concerning how to enlarge the pie. I believe that the mindset of exploring wise tradeoffs is more common in business schools than in law or policy schools, where... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

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