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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
trust in traditional media is at its highest point in the past decade at 66 percent. But trust in social media platforms languishes at around 43 percent, and in this era of fake news, fixed elections and fraudulent data, regaining the View Details
Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
https://www.mfs.com/wps/FileServerServlet?servletCommand=serveUnprotectedFileAsset&fileAssetPath=/files/documents/news/mfse_pznaa_wp.pdf Marketing and Public Policy: Transformative Research in Developing Markets Authors:Clifford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley studies the intersection of business and law, and is interested in how companies can use legal resources as a competitive asset. In this interview, Bagley discusses ways businesses can... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
can it be done more efficiently and at lower risk than in the "school of hard knocks" assumed in many responses? (David White's comment that " the only way to improve judgment is to make mistakes" was typical of these.) Can, for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
in the July-August issue of Foreign Policy magazine. It is urgent and important because China and India are the world's next major powers, according to the writers, Yasheng Huang, formerly of Harvard Business School and now a professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
inspire new research." Choudhury and Khanna also noticed an increase in herbal patent filing in the mid-1990s, despite the publicity of patent-related lawsuits happening at the time: the turmeric case, a lawsuit involving curative... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
If,' Asked George? Authors:Leslie Perlow Publication:In Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research, edited by Arne Carlsen and Jane E. Dutton. Copenhagen Business School Press, forthcoming An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
fast? Are business schools right in buying into a method of scoring the game that threatens to reduce their diversity of intellectual and social capital? All for the sake of a best list ranking? Are these really the right signposts on the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape public opinion and policies. But as... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, edited by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic. New York: Public Affairs Books, forthcoming. Book Abstract Of the 20 most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Cases & Course MaterialsBMW's Project Switch (A): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Case 509-023 BMW is faced with potential channel conflicts across several EU country markets. The case highlights BMW's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
establishments in sparse regions, but both groups improve similarly in dense regions, suggesting that density mitigates the power of large establishments to resist institutional pressures. Finally, privately held firms' establishments outperform those owned by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
carburetors. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-009.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInnovating in Health Care—Framework Harvard Business School Note 306-042 Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
particularly in developing, technology-poor countries. Harvard Business School professor Diego Comin teamed with Harvard University's Philippe Aghion and Brown University's Peter Howitt to research the issue and write the working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
20 percent of the American population," observes Tufano. "What we're talking about is a little replumbing of the IRS code and the Bureau of Public Debt to help the remaining 80 percent of American families to save. That strikes... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
model of the Balanced Scorecard, and they link it with the time-based dynamics of strategy in their latest book, Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). In this e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace