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- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
to the special role reinsurers have played in the capitalist system. As the industry developed, it had a vested interest in preventing excessive risks, while also providing complex societies with a mechanism to limit the damage that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
there are several areas where there are differences of opinion between the authorities in China and others, inside and outside China, about norms for social and political discourse. The main obstacle, I feel, is that there is no mechanism... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
matches in such markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
What was your undergraduate university and major? I have an MSc in mechanical engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France) and another MSc in aerospace engineering from Supaéro (Toulouse, France). Why did you decide to apply... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
value of the Historical Collections is immense,” says Nicholas. “Original materials constitute ‘hard evidence.’ They help students to appreciate the significance of historical context, and they provide a mechanism through which they can... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems generally: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring. Using these dimensions, we first unpack the mechanisms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to understand the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
must face tough regulation going forward, including strict limits on overall leverage and short-term debt. Under the new reform legislation, regulators will be empowered to rein in the largest financial institutions in precisely these ways. The legislation also... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog
circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details on IFCs and be sure you... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
against these in-game lottery-like mechanisms and their broader implications for the gaming industry and beyond. Sasago, who was a recipient of the HBS Japan Fellowship in 2019 and 2020, says he was working in finance while Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
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research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with strong integrative View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
into a community of cat lovers. — Doris Banchik-Moxley (MBA 1984) 1) As a subscription service, invoke a simple recurring mechanism to allow faster feedback on your customers’ preferences. This will allow you to improve products and... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
have the motivation that you are doing something that could be meaningful to the world helps you stick it out through the hard times." A mechanical engineer by trade who had worked in design for Honda and Toyota, Schrader came to... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
mechanisms (forums for discussions and decisions, plus rules, policies, and agreements) to help the family make decisions and keep family members informed, united, and hopefully committed to future investments by the family. 4. Talent... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
the fundamental causal mechanisms through which our lives have improved," Christensen said. Health Care Takes A Hit At the conference, Christensen looked forward to areas where disruptive technologies could soon or are already taking... View Details