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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’ petition? “It is a lazy person’s... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
food, medicine, or cosmetics you use. Consumers would end up restricting what they buy to a few trusted brands. In effect, the FDA has made competition possible in consumer products and even in pharmaceuticals (particularly through the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
harvest the kinetic energy of tides and waves without falling to pieces or costing an arm and a leg is tricky business, and many have failed in the attempt. “Plenty of systems have ended up on the floor of the ocean,” says Rahul Shendure... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
one-year coaching engagement and the outputs from it, including her pre-coaching self-reflection, agreed-upon purpose and outcomes, 360 feedback, the coach’s advice to her, an in-depth coach’s final report, and Lane’s one-pager of lessons learned. At the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-108 Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems' Authors:Bettina Klaus and Lars Ehlers Abstract Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called house allocation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
publicly signal this position. These cloaked trades earn an abnormal return of 370 basis points in the following month, or over 36% per year. We further show that the same managers do not engage in such information-rich cloaked trading around other month View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
any potential appearance of conflict of interest) are past contest participants. Exchange.com’s Stig Leschly comments on what he is looking for as a judge: “A team’s résumé is important, but it’s relevant to just a fraction of the View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
experiences over things. That appeal is broad-based.” Don’t break out the bubbly when a change in business policy results in an increase in your prestige. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her colleague discovered that “unearned status gains” can cause View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
increases in perceived bias against Whites—a relationship not observed in Blacks' perceptions. Moreover, these changes in Whites' conceptions of racism are extreme enough that Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger societal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
principles have guided those charged with determining how to bring information technology into the heart of HBS. First and foremost is the faculty's belief that the technology should not be an end in and of itself; rather, it should... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, tested the potential problem of raters that compete for business favoring the issuers and providing less reliable ratings. Their HBS working paper "Reputation and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
electronic ink — not end products,” Wilcox says, “and we bet everything that electronic publishing would become a big industry.” The move came too late, and by January 2004, the remaining technical issues had exhausted the last of the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
relative merits for Unigrains of expanding its reach globally versus maintaining its specialized position in French agribusiness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-154 Hello Alfred: Come Home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
Slovakia that morning: They were there to bring an end to the war. Green and his team were under orders to support the Slovak National Uprising. Three weeks earlier, Slovak partisans had risen up against the country’s Nazi-allied... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31
three million school children before the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2009? Would they be able to do it for less than $0.50 per child? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910001-PDF-ENG Deworming Kenya:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne