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19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

predominant technology for index trading. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211006-PDF-ENG Batson International, S.A. (A) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-023 seeking to make up a shortfall in interim period View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

standard forecasting regressions reveal that increases in p*t lead to economic downturns. Second, disaster risk is priced in the cross section of U.S. equity returns. A zero-cost equity portfolio with exposure to disasters earns... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

believe, is why we saw the stock market sell off so dramatically on Monday. Investors fear a global slowdown in growth and a resulting negative impact on corporate profits. We won't know for several months the extent of the damage. GNP, employment data, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

cost reduction wave could eliminate her job. For the one in Bangalore, the most rewarding work is probably done in London, and her earnings are likely to be lower than those of her London counterparts. With the arrival of new candidates... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

requesting them. Still slated to lose their jobs, the workers built cars so efficiently that they earned the right to a new-car launch. And when the time came to shut the plant down, headquarters had to refuse: The employees at Wilmington... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

January 2024
Teaching Note

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between... View Details

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05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

upgrade sales to an installed base. When profits from the installed base are sufficiently large, a pure strategy equilibrium exists with two B firms active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the monopoly Firm A may View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

"business is an extraordinary force for good." While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

and sales for our datasets) is positively correlated with both dispersion among experts' forecasts and scale: the variance increases sublinearly with dispersion and more than linearly with scale. Further, we use longitudinal datasets with sales forecasts made 3-9... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Environmental pressures, including the risk that we could destabilize the climate through the emission of green-house gases. Poverty and inequality, with fewer people taking greater pieces of the earnings pie. "Should business get... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

programs? What management practices work best? Catching Affiliate Fraud Edelman and Brandi, admitted computer geeks, developed software that allowed them to observe management structures within companies using affiliate branding. Edelman, who View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

January 2024
Supplement

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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09 May 2005
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Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

2002 when it sold its HDD (hard disk drive) business to Hitachi and continued to build its position in consulting, where it had better odds of earning the kinds of returns it wanted. And that's also the point that AT&T got to in 2004,... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

traditionally earned their biggest margins when rooms were scarce and customers were forced to pay higher rates—such as in Midtown Manhattan on New Year's Eve. And it's good news for travelers who don't have to pay through the roof to get... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether the sales rep had to do... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

business loan market. Often times, the biggest banks refer small businesses below such revenue thresholds or seeking such low dollar loans to their small business credit card products, which earn higher yields. As the economy enters the... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
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Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. While earning his PhD in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

in, and when they did, they saw a warm, welcoming city, with attractive facilities and convenient infrastructure. Team Great Britain also vastly exceeded expectations, earning 65 medals in the Games compared to 19 four years earlier and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

bloggers about whether Amazon's profits will ever live up to its promise are predictable every time its earnings announcements come around. Of course, Bezos's strategy hasn't hurt the company. Its current market value is $135 billion.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

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