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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis. That is true but irrelevant. You don't need a crystal ball to see that we have an unsustainable business model and no political process for change. What we need is simple—growth. We need the economy to expand. We need... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
around the world who want to study its practices. The Clinic's journey also holds lessons for organizations outside health care that must suddenly compete by creating a superior customer experience. The authors, one of whom was critical to steering the hospital's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline, internal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired direction. Repeat this View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a better job measuring, reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
histories spanning generations, we combine induction and deduction to propose reputation as a meta-resource that allows firms to activate their conventional resources. We conceptualize reputation as consisting of prominence, perceived quality, and resilience and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Learned from Market Design? Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
"An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees: An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory." Journal of Banking and Finance 1, no. 1 (June 1977): 3-11. ** Merton, Robert C. " Applications of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- Web
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round-trip air travel and any costs associated with required visa documentation and immunizations. Students should ensure adequate processing time for all visas, as travel fees are not refundable if a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
must work and interact with other components. This standardization process is under tremendous stress. Many disputes roiling courts and administrative bodies around the world-such as those involving Apple, Google, Microsoft, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
subordinates to become entrepreneurs. In fact, entrepreneurship has been defined (by Howard H. Stevenson and J. Carlos Jarillo) as "the process by which individuals—either on their own or inside organizations—pursue opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to the intellectual property and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
own credibility and discerning the interests of other key players. Their three stories illustrate different elements of the process of building your bargaining endowment: (1) grab someone's coattails, (2) foster a reputation for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
the 1960s and forward through the early 1990s so he is able examine the process of economic development of these four economies and their relationships with FDI. Huang is especially interested in FDI that went into labor-intensive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By: John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who... View Details