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- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
that, few newspapers have the historical cachet of the Washington Post—and therefore more to lose from making the wrong call. So news of the Post's ownership changing hands from the Graham family to Amazon's Jeff Bezos—after seven... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
change he may need to continue into a second year. Yet the physical separation from his family had begun to take a toll. Had the executive done enough to institutionalize change or was it still too dependent on his personal relationships... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
collects revenue only after both the client and consumers are fully satisfied. R&D expenses could be just $1,000 for tweaking an existing flavor, but they could go as high as $300,000 for an entirely new family of flavors that require... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
theoretical investigation of open platform systems. To do this, we must first recognize that, although there is a strong family resemblance among all platform systems, there are different types of platforms, each with its own set of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Whillans, and Frances Chen Abstract—The transition to university is a major life change wherein young adults' primary support system shifts from the family to peers. Can social integration (operationalized as the number of friends) during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
co-worker; with 150, it can do better than a family member; and with 300, better than a spouse. But then came the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, when that firm got 250,000 Facebook users to voluntarily give them access to their personal data... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
companies." Kerr points to other factors beyond salary: "Younger immigrant workers are often more tied to the firm, are willing to work long hours, and often have fewer family commitments. Their salary may also be lower, especially... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to get home to see if their View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
more, inflation-adjusted wages stalled for many, even as consumer spending increased. Where did the money for all this spending come from? Companies borrowed, governments borrowed, and families borrowed. Savings rates approached zero.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
211-044 Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth U.S. $5.5 billion but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang and uses it to study succession planning for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent Value methodology. The methodology viewed stock prices as the clearest and most reliable signals of the market's expectations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
lackluster. Able to deploy all the tools along the capital curve of impact investing, which if any is optimal for Anudip? The case recounts the transition of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, from the Omidyar Family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
steady stream of orders. Like so many entrepreneurs, Dal LaMagna pursued his new idea with a vengeance, but insisted on doing it all himself. Working out of a small family bungalow in Long Island, he made deals with suppliers, figured out... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
mobility barriers have become essential components of conflict policies. Second, a family of hybrid conflict policies has evolved that feature elements of the "split account" system long practiced in Japan. "What surprised me," Silk says,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the future," he concluded. "If you want to buy a home today, you better have great credit. You better have a down payment. That all sounds fine and secure, but it certainly leaves behind millions of families who are at the lower... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the 19th century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
family of objectives that have been well studied in the literature for their fairness properties. We deal with the problem of selecting the appropriate objective from this family. We characterize the trade-off achieved between efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne