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- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
the leading firm would be costly and could lead to both companies charging less, explains MacKay. One surprise finding of the research was that firms with inferior pricing technology also benefit from this arrangement, so investments in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
two-year orgy of enthusiasm for Internet enterprises. "At some boards of directors," he said, driving the point home, "they institute a $50 fine for every new application you think of." That challenge faced E Ink... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
businesses were often treated as a portfolio of investments rather than an integrated worldwide business. Such cultural influences were very evident in Lever Brothers and later Unilever, where the important overseas operations were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
their social conscience. To them, doing good is just table stakes. Scratch has developed a proprietary methodology examining “brand love” to decode the science of brand affinity across generations. We found that millennials assume that big brands, corporations, and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The Effect of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any issues such an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise Vicki Sato, Christoph Jaeker, and Pooja Mehta SolankiHarvard Business School Case 612-048 As the head of the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable, explains why many governance... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
its influence on team processes and performance are discussed. What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks? Authors:Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and David A. Maber Publication:Journal of Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne