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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
Education reunion attendees and found that while only subtle changes were needed to improve the MBA reunion experience, the Executive Education model should be addressed more closely. The committee’s recommendation was to undertake a full View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
historical figures in Irish political economy along the analysis of major thematic issues, schools of thought, and major policy debates within the Irish context over this extended period. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
competitive position as important factors in determining how management might respond to NGOs. Do have you any recommendations for managers in determining the relative value of each factor? Spar: Firms need to understand their own... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Chernilovskiy and Eykher, Kazzinc’s CFO, were suddenly facing an urgent need to reduce costs and improve cash flows. At the same time, they were growing acutely aware of the industry’s inequity: Miners (who produce raw materials) and... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a larger result, typically an ultimate target agreement with sufficient support to make it sustainable. When the unit of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
workers with heterogeneous human capital interface with machine learning, relative to the older Boolean search technology. We randomly assign individuals with and without computer science and engineering (CS&E) knowledge bases to each... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
worldwide establishment dataset, we investigate both the significance and causes of multinational firm co-agglomeration. In contrast to the conventional emphasis of the literature on the role of input-output linkages, we assess the effect of various agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A replicating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
the company were liquidated. Market value reflects the total value of a public company’s outstanding shares based on the market price for a share. A stock with higher book-to-market ratio, such as when it is higher than 1, is considered View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
particular people: Do the descendants of those who died or lost property deserve reparations? The relative recency of the Tulsa Massacre and the economic loss—estimated at $26.1 million in today’s dollars—accompanying the tremendous human... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
That is no longer true, though, for any but a relative handful of institutions. Costs have risen to unprecedented heights, and new competitors are emerging. A disruptive technology, online learning, is at... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
theorize how team scaffolds enable effective coordination among people who do not work together regularly. We argue that role-based coordination among relative strangers can be interpersonally challenging and propose that team scaffolds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
each time we added seats, average attendance and contributions increased. I made a cash-flow analysis and revenue projections that helped lenders understand our business model. We’re now able to negotiate and secure reasonable financial... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details