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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
my interviews, among the most frequently mentioned diversity-related HR practice was the five-minute drill, which began with Gerstner's top team and has cascaded down from the chairman to two levels down from CEO. The five-minute drill... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and cost (40 percent);... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
IS FIRST Drilling down further into the data, they analyzed which factors determine which companies were most likely to be helped or hurt by such ties. First off, McDonald and his co-authors hypothesized that the biggest beneficiary would... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees settlers, whose number is determined by an annual cap set in advance. These refugees are distributed to 10 resettlement agencies, each of which runs a network of local affiliates that have their own predetermined capacity... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
their professional and personal growth. Users are able to easily sort the content based on their professional or personal interests—such as entrepreneurship, work-life balance, health care, diversity and inclusion, and board governance—and can View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
used that information to predict how often and when a customer may request a car as part of their routine. The model could drill into specific kinds of routines, too: The model identifies seven clusters of typical ridesharing routines in... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
natural gas from coal does not solve the world's climate change problem, but it is a bridge. We need to stop burning all fossil fuels, but in order to do so, the world needs much cheaper dispatchable, zero-carbon alternatives. The trucking of fracking fluids to (and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
vehicle incentives, and accelerate drilling for oil. If the pro-climate action side wins the election, that doesn’t settle the matter. Business leaders won’t be able to return to business as usual. Instead, they should seek a seat at the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
“Something important is going to happen here.” That’s the expectation Tom DeLong hopes to create in his students from the moment they walk through the door of his Aldrich classroom. Here, he drills down to some of the preparation that... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
tweaked the website, the overall sales conversion rate for buyers actually went up by as much as 23 percent, meaning that customers weren’t just buying higher-priced items, rather, they were buying more items overall. When Teixeira and Ngwe View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
record before this spill, which may also have contributed to the creation of this fund. After this, the case describes the various ways in which the U.S. government is involved in offshore oil, starting from the leasing of tracts, the regulation of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
ratios. Students can apply the traditional DuPont decomposition framework to drill down into the business model of the two companies. The case then allows students to use the modified (also known as additive or alternate) DuPont approach... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
further objective is to support economic growth, with “affordable” prices for energy and avoidance of supply interruptions. The conflicts among these are apparent. ANWR drilling (Alaska) would be economical and reduce foreign oil... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
many firms that were making other products. PS: As you well know, one thing that’s been drilled into the head of every business in the world, including health care businesses, is this notion of just-in-time inventory, and we’ve all worked... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
"hitch" changes (a hitch is the two-week stint each worker does offshore, followed by two weeks off-duty). Each facility contains space for outdoor work, production facilities, power generation, drilling operations, control... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
taking full advantage of new media. The NMNH's Bob Fri observes that "the Web experience is a lot like the museum experience: You come in, surf around until you see something that attracts your attention, and then drill down to find out... View Details