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- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
focus, yet he was able to learn and radically evolve after his failures. In short, his career was a glaring cautionary tale, but he was also a tremendous role model for the next generation of founders. In the end, Jobs did indeed leave... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
different views about their relative power, the leader should connect frequently with those who are farthest away and emphasize unity. Process—Meeting processes should allow for informal interactions that build empathy. Language—Everyone, regardless of View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
large research and practice infrastructures to produce in-depth insights for a staggering array of public companies, private entities, investment firms, public sector organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and governmental... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
have the money in their account in just days, whereas in the conventional banking model small business owners may not be approved for several weeks. New Ways To Make Loan Decisions By and large, emerging online alternative lenders make... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
biggest departure from the traditional banking model, where banks do the legwork on behalf of investors, and investors may have little or no information about loans—and in fact may not know which loans their money is supporting. “The lending View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
selection as an important, but understudied, element of organizational control systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
lack of data about the actual returns of a specific set of companies in this early-stage category has resulted in an ongoing philosophical debate that to date has been based largely on anecdotal investor experience. As far as we could... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
invest in a data science artificial intelligence across your enterprise to take advantage of the large volume of data being produced. And finally, to actually deliver new value to your customers, you need to design new business View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
to bring their offerings to large numbers of people, to make a market for prestige cosmetics, specialty coffee, and made-to-order PCs at moments when these products were new. In starting out, each of these entrepreneurs believed—and this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
than in models with fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career Fellow selects a company and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched the theory of disruptive innovation, still one of the most... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to depoliticize aid. To be eligible for MCC... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
next step, as outlined in a working paper entitled "Tigers and Dragons: Profiling High Performance Asian Firms." Deshpandé and Farley extended their research to analyze company performance in large companies in China, Hong Kong,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
and a senior executive. Without having role models herself, “It’s been difficult to figure out which styles to copy how to negotiate or how to present myself. All of my bosses and role models have been men!”... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
intermediary's technology. We develop a model to show that the intermediary would want to restrict sellers from charging buyers more for transactions it intermediates. With this restriction an intermediary can profitably raise demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne