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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
layoffs and lost revenues, for example - weak companies are artificially supported," he explains. "Other firms won't or can't restructure themselves or exit unprofitable businesses because they are too set in their ways, lack sound governance systems, or are hindered... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
difficult question is whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the other way around. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-140.pdf PublicationsInput Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
the past. The economics of financial transactions have continually dropped from dollars to cents. New entrants have joined many industries and have focused on taking strategic advantage of IT's associated economics. Company boundaries... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 08 Nov 2013
- HBS Seminar
Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth-and even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
process solutions has become clear. And it is driving new business creation, as well as traditional business adaptation, at far higher than previous rates. With the evolution of our great industrial and financial base, we may at last be... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to Asia. But the global View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
investments that keep them going.” In fact, companies cut their longer-term investments by 10 to 40 percent—an average of 17 percentage points more than shorter-term investments. In financial terms, that carries the same View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
considering the many different opinions for tackling the crisis, the multitude of parliamentary and electoral processes involved, and the constraints of treaties not designed to withstand these unprecedented stresses, the measures that... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
common mistakes made by international managers, and the development of his book for readers interested in "the opportunities of managing in a global setting." Sean Silverthorne: International Finance and its case studies explore various dimensions of View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Learning in practice & the HKS toolkit After my first year in the joint degree program at HKS (MPA/ID Program) with leading development economists such as Professors Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik, I developed the analytical and quantitative toolkit necessary to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
HKS toolkit After my first year in the joint degree program at HKS (MPA/ID Program) with leading development economists such as Professors Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik, I developed the analytical and quantitative toolkit necessary to diagnose a country’s binding... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Putting a spell on theatergoers
Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, as well as Disney's music and theater divisions. At Warner Bros. Horn gave the green light to the Harry Potter series and Dark Knight trilogy, both critical and financial successes. Bringing joy,... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
overoptimistic assumptions embedded in that research. The bigger problem is that not all investors are able to rigorously study financial statement analysis and valuation, and given constraints on time,... View Details