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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
component of bid-ask spreads. We empirically examine these predictions for a sample of large U.S. banks, exploiting recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value levels 1, 2, and 3, which indicate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
nineteenth century, showed it gained momentum from the 1960s, and resulted in a mainstreaming of sustainability rhetoric, and sometimes practice, in large corporations from the 1980s, primarily in Western developed countries. A more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the situation where waste becomes a source of profit, our research shows that it is almost never optimal to maintain the same operating regime as under the old paradigm where waste was a cost burden and merely convert the existing waste into by-product. Our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
which fueled a financial crisis in the U.S. and beyond. The case study examines New Century's business model and accounting practices and focuses on the role of management, audit committee, and external auditors in the problems at New... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
and families, and also hosts conferences and retreats for groups both large and small. Taken together, the programming presents a forward vision for the region, Marietta says. “If our future economy is going to be based on outdoor... View Details
- 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 pricing technology by View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupees from his tenants, but that money just became 20 percent more expensive in the global currency market. So what is she to do? The options aren't appealing: Default on the loan or change the business model by possible refinancing. As... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
How Do Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition?, Campbell, fellow HBS professor Frances X. Frei and doctoral student Ryan W. Buell explore this dance between service levels, customer loyalty, and competitive strategy. The study drew on extensive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
rely to a large extent on how well you gel with the team during the interview process. Early on at Blueground, it was clear that the culture was a great fit for me. Blueground is highly focused on results and keeps itself honest about how... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
technologies and business models that his and other companies are exploring to prepare for the energy transition and mitigate climate change. One session featuring Susan Morrice, CEO, Co-Founder, and Chairperson of Belize Natural Energy,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
the country. Naturally, smaller plots will have lower yield and, therefore, create income constraints for farmer’s livelihoods. Secondly, given such a large swath of the population depends on farming income, fertilizer is overused.... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
architecture. They were locked into their old architecture as competitors like Apple built a device plus a third party app model that brought a much broader and appealing range of capabilities to users. By the time BlackBerry started... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
that one of the most important aspects is the culture. When you join a large, established company you know more or less what the culture will be like. In the case of startups, you don’t really know until you join. Therefore, you need to rely to a View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen. Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother's Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
different skill sets, since the technology and business models need to be developed hand in hand. We have to create systems that combine science, medicine, strategy, and IT in a sophisticated way, and managers will play a View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Hall and Yuval Millo from the London School of Economics look at how these employees can use their own skills to become so-called frame-makers, part of their organizations' strategic decision-making teams. While their research focused on risk management professionals... View Details