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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
potential. Without the larger firm investing again in Maricopa, the business was at risk of going under. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
for PR firms and their holding-company media conglomerate parents to do so. The public relations industry in the broadest sense has undergone a tremendous amount of consolidation through acquisitions over the past 20 years. It is also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
fewer risks for fear of making mistakes and thus losing their job? Also of interest to us is whether companies adjust their strategies based on noncompete enforcement. We might expect, for example, that unsanctioned spin-offs will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently engaged in an analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices exhibited by manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
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
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... 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
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract Currency investors exhibit a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
trying to do something audacious; indeed the only way to know you are being audacious enough is if others, and occasionally even you yourself, have doubts about your ambition. But we felt that if FIELD was worth doing, we should manage the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game. The authors present a framework for rethinking business and operating models, explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that first... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
colleague Clay Christensen's research of what he calls "the innovator's dilemma." At the risk of doing great damage to a carefully executed piece of research, I'll paraphrase it this way: Christensen maintains that large,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The biotech... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
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
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
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