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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
2004 investment, estimated at $18 million, had already appreciated about 20 times. This and other bets—including Hotmail (where Draper introduced the concept of viral marketing), Four11, Baidu, SolarCity, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yammer,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
improvement processes of one kind or another, innovation, and so on. With a few notable exceptions—including Jim Collins's work on "Level Five" leaders, and the treatment of leadership both in my previous book, High Commitment, High... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
Austin’s,” says Frye, in Charlotte. “But we do have assets we can build on to really accelerate our ability to be effective and to grow.” Of course, the race to dominate financial technology is not confined to the United States, and more... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
to exit direct stockholding if their stock portfolios have performed well; but these relationships are much weaker for mutual funds, a pattern which is consistent with previous research on the disposition effect among direct stockholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
looked at the situation as a fantasized, rational actor would. This was a cognitive tour de force. It was made possible by Grove’s capacity to frame issues differently from the way others do. Grove said that even after this moment of clarity, View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
concerns by using exogenous predictors of dual-class status as instruments. In single-stage regressions, we find strong evidence that firm value is increasing in insiders' cash-flow rights and decreasing in insider voting rights. In instrumental variable regressions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on communication, feedback and coaching, emotional intelligence, and team... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing concern about global warming... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lower quantities, magnifying the below-normative level behavior when facing high margin but partially counterbalancing the above-normative level behavior when facing low margin, violating the pull-to-center effect in both cases.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
consumption tax. The destination-based cash flow tax that was proposed in the summer was effectively that in disguise. I wasn't a terrible fan of that implementation of it, but I think there's something to be said for switching to that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
such areas. "The corrosive effects of urban decay have pushed many cities into a devastating downward slide. Unless business leaders are centrally involved in generating solutions to the pressing urban problems, there will be no lasting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
focus was the physical campus, on which he had a huge impact — expanding the Morgan Hall office building from 53,000 to 116,000 square feet, adding the Shad Hall fitness center, and completing the Class of 1959 Chapel. He also effectively... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's president expressed during the nationalization process. Interestingly, the effect of the vignette on households that gained water is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
first step was figuring out how to most effectively grow lettuce in climate-controlled shipping containers in this former root beer plant. “We’re doing this in a very logical, road-mapping way. We’re not trying to bend the laws of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
problems and opportunities they will face as entrepreneurs and, second, by communicating our findings effectively to entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and policymakers." Special Satisfaction A pivotal phase in the success of any... View Details
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