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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Growth," followed four tracks of inquiry: managing innovation, information technology and competitive strategy, transforming the enterprise, and entrepreneurship. "Ours is an era of organizational experimentation," observed Professor Gary... View Details
- Profile
Maya Babu
contractors and service providers." Encouraged by her mentor at the Administration, Maya applied for the joint MD/MBA degree. Understanding both sides of the health care system To prepare for participation at HBS, Maya attended several weekend conferences at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
strategically and organizationally." A longtime observer of multinational corporations, Bartlett is the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration. In 1998 he and Sumantra Ghoshal published a second edition of Managing Across... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
credit constraints, and I find no imbalance in observable characteristics between treatment and control groups. These findings strongly suggest social safety nets have spillover benefits on the supply of firms. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
changes in stockouts or rebalances. We observe no evidence of learning or fatigue. Agent-level heterogeneity in the treatment effects shows that the agents who handle substantially more customer deposits than withdrawals benefit most from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
customer from the credit risk of the intermediary explains various contractual arrangements, institutions, and regulatory practices observed in practice. Moreover, customers and investors are often intertwined in practice, and so this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“Back-end” deals, or profit-sharing after a film has been released, also vary widely — if the producer is even included in that aspect of the contract. “Controlling the capital, rights, and distribution are the three keys,” observes Zee,... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
over-do it? This case certainly applies to Westmoreland as well as to any company rethinking its market focus: Are you boxing yourself in? Could you be passing the point of no return? A typical HBS case closes with the question, "What should do?" Concerns are raised... View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
company operations, and protect the environment while generating long-term value for shareholders. "A decision by Doug McMillon ... has given us an opportunity to put the Business Roundtable’s new criteria to the test." The Roundtable has drawn criticism for... View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
board members are dissenting from the party line and which are following the majority. “In the United States you know this happens, but you don't get to observe it." —Juan Ma Khanna and HBS doctoral student Juan Ma, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
to choose the ecofriendly bulb, but they also reported that price was the attribute they actually cared about most. Next, another group of participants simply observed the choice that other people made: the selection of the ecofriendly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
in 2021. Wen and Iyoha coauthored the paper with Duke University Professor Edmund J. Malesky; Sung-Ju Wu, a research fellow at the University of Nottingham in the UK; and Bo Feng, a predoctoral fellow at HBS. Magnets for rerouting companies Iyoha, who long View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
increasing the number of "what-do-you-think" feedback sections, allowing users to be active participants, not just passive readers. "We want to take better advantage of the Web as a medium," observes Silverthorne. "We plan to add the... View Details
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Justine Murray
You could say that Justine Murray’s (she/her) first unofficial research subjects were her friends in the financial sector. Observing her colleagues at her first job after graduating from Wharton, she noticed many of them working hard to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
explicitly rejected." While acknowledging that the state or various societal groups also clamor for order, Spar declares that, in general, "rules get created because private firms want them." And she observes that what's true for many of... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
We've been encouraging readers to share feedback and observations about Working Knowledge articles by email, resulting in a slew of thoughtful responses. Here are a few comments from June, published with permission: Re: "Extroverts, Your... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11
alternative explanations for some important empirical observations in IB, such as bunching and second-mover advantage in market entries. 2006 Journal of Financial Economics How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
to the 2003 Alumni Healthcare Conference on November 7, outlined the characteristics of the baby market and the political, social, and regulatory roadblocks to businesses that wish to participate. "Morality surrounds this market to such an extent that some View Details