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- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
shuffling bits of paper around. You don’t create any value, but you can beat the other guys playing the game. And the only redeeming value is to do it better than the other people. And that’s pretty good advice. That’s always kind of entertaining in itself. It gives... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
connected than oneself was associated with more friendship formation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53066 Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
transport. And this year, Tata launched Ginger Hotels, which promises clean, no-frills accommodations at around $21 per night. “These are consumers who didn’t exist just a few years ago,” observes Ratan Tata. RATAN TATA: "We need to ensure that we View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
healthcare organizations and asks that each set of financial information be matched with one of the following healthcare companies: a biotechnology firm, a community nursing company, a distributor (medical), a DME licensee and seller, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
219-018 "Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS's progression from a provider of low-cost technical resources to their goal of becoming an end-to-end technology-enabled services provider. However, the project was not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
"Devin." - Me and my brother were walking down a trail, and we're both smoking some meth. He said something to me, and it set me off. And I picked up a tree limb. I started hitting him with it. Busted his head open. I think it broke one... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Smartphone Industry By: Paik, Yongwook, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
rudimentary auction technology that would work across the network. What was difficult was getting the right information at the marketplace. It became clear that there needed to be a whole market infrastructure to create these new kinds of commodities exchanges. I left... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
already been done, especially when a costly court battle drags on for as long as 18 months. “If you’re a small, innovative firm, you don’t have that kind of time. Your technology will be obsolete,” Cohen said. Cohen said it makes sense to View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
activity in a way by which that goal can be realized. You’ll see much more in this arena in the new year. Second, I see many opportunities to leverage the many digital assets we have built and to think about how we might use the case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular and business culture. In the arena of international commerce, they share an expectation that differences will be set... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.” That’s the pitch Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999) and her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
this world,” she says. “There should be no monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.”... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
setting expectations that folks who are on site are not just there for in-person meetings. Ensure there are times for people to just sit together and work or to have more casual connections at hackathons or demo hours, so teams can show... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the intricate quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
should avoid any semblance of tax evasion or illicit activity, says Baker. He points to the goals of GFI’s Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development (TFFIED), a global coalition of civil society organizations and some 55... View Details