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- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock market has almost tripled in size. A... View Details
- May 2013
- Article
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
By: Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the... View Details
Falck, Oliver, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr. "From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 3 (May 2013): 419–449.
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, leads an organization considered to be a model among disease-focused foundations that pursue research, therapies, and cures. Under Hood’s guidance, the foundation has helped to streamline medical research... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- News
Jumia Pioneers Online Retailing in Africa
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
$1 trillion to over $6 trillion annually. The World Economic Forum identified new sustainable buildings as a $24.7 trillion investment opportunity by 2030, in emerging markets alone. No surprise – Amanda, an engineer by training, believes... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in View Details
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to the city of Boston. Users who received photographic evidence that their service requests had been addressed were more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Anthony Tan
do better business. Tan knew the benefit of first mover advantage in a market and he made that a part of the business plan, which was a runner-up in the HBS New Venture Competition in 2011. Using the $25,000 from the NVC and his own... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
So if fewer and fewer people are buying insurance policies, what are insurers going to do with their business? They should look at this as a changing market and realize that if they get in now, they could have a commanding mindshare of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
leadership by doing in addition to discussing cases in the classroom. “It gives us an opportunity to really put the HBS mission statement to work and take a leadership role by looking at how to leverage our expertise in a socially relevant way,” he says. “To have... View Details
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Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report
Professor Claudia Goldin on "Why Women Won" 08 Mar 2025 Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? 11 Sep 2024 Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy (and the lives of the 1%)? Is this something that market mechanisms can resolve? Or will responses like those Rifkin proposes be the answer? Or are these just 2013's issues of the day? What do you think? To Read More: Jaron... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Fast Answer
Patent search: Product-associated patents
How can I find patents associated to a particular (branded) product? It is always a challenge to conduct a patent search by product (or "brand name") because: Almost all the patented products in the market are known by... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic multiplier effect in View Details