Exchange - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

for it? Probably not, as long as there is a giant global community (Facebook), with a billion monthly active members, including that high school exchange student who they lost touch with when they went back to Bolivia. And that one's... View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Publishing; Financial Services

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student.... View Details

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

from the epicenter, the rotating power outages promise to be a significant near term challenge. An e-mail exchange with a good friend at a major Japanese multinational over the weekend highlighted for me the uncertainty that lies ahead.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

relationship can range from loose to tight with respect to the financial and operational interactions between affiliates and the central organization. A loose affiliation generally refers to a network of organizations committed to View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

Web

RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

the use of scratch: A temporary space for their work, and not necessarily the same use/approach as /tmp. A strategic location for temporary storage of disposable files so as not to interfere with one’s quota A place to exchange files with... View Details

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

resulting from the liberalization of the Turkish economy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811081-PDF-ENG Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange Josh Lerner and Keith Chi-ho WongHarvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2022
Op-Ed

Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams

business leaders demanded collaboration tools, we saw Zoom and other video conferencing products explode. But MS quickly responded with improvements to Teams’ videoconferencing capabilities and ease of use. As everyone in the company has an MS 365 account and an View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

and happy customers produce value for investors, makes sense. Why do so many employers fail to follow this logic? Sasser: I'm not sure I would use the word 'happy' unless 'happy' is a synonym for highly satisfied. The key is that organizations are in value View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency of managers to employ super... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such analyses. The Security and Exchange... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

benefit to defined contribution health insurance, leveraging individual exchanges to lower cost and improve benefit offering. Latent Energy Rourke Pattullo (MBA 2025), Bahaa Hafez Latent Energy enables EV owners to monetize the excess... View Details

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

co-working/accelerator space Grand Central Tech in Manhattan. Three teams made the final cut to advance to the Global Rounds. George Hessler (MBA 1985) was named the regional winner with Magma Trading, “a trading platform that allows dealers to roll up the liquidity... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

early 1720, the South Sea Company and the Bank of England were competing for the right to issue new shares and to exchange those shares for government bonds that were then in the hands of the public. The British government had already... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

a beginner, that could actually have powerful implications for how advising takes place in an organization. It has implications for how experts can better understand those who have less experience than they do." Note to managers: If your organization is interested in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Bowl running back Arian Foster," according to a company press release. Fantex paid $10 million for a minority stake in Foster's brand. At the Harvard forum, Foster said that Security and Exchange Commission regulations prohibit him... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality. Intimacy shifts the focus from a top-down distribution of information to a bottom-up exchange of ideas. Organizational conversation is less corporate in tone and more casual. And it's less... View Details