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- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
kiosks. The interesting question is, where do you fall on that continuum? Acurio is probably more on the commercial end, because he is trying to create a brand to launch in other countries—it's not that he's trying to make money,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Peru. Later, Lewis decided to pursue a career in business, prompting him to apply to HBS. LEWIS: I was expecting Harvard University to be a more racially diverse campus, but because the location of HBS was isolated from the undergraduate campus, I thought that it was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
going through major reorganization or collapse were probably headed there in five to ten years anyway. It’s a difficult transition, but it’s exciting in the sense that this economic recession is forcing transitions faster, quickly... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
points out that given that "a series of people have fallen off the wagon," more formal measures will probably be called for soon. "There's really deep suspicion out there," Silk says. "I think issues of privacy are going to come under... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the system for how we lead and manage,” Kaplan explains. “Virginia Mason used to be a physician-driven organization,” he continues. “Now we’re patient-driven. Our goal is to be the highest quality provider in our area at the lowest cost. We’re View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that each choice is made based on one of several rules. The rules include rational choice, level-1 reasoning, an attempt to maximize joint payoff, and an attempt to increase fairness. The probability of using the different rules is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
and lower their ambitions when rejected. We derive the comparative statics with respect to the sellers' initial reputation, the probability of fortuitous disclosure, the sellers' self-knowledge and impatience, and the concentration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
social categories (gender, tenure within the firm). In dyad-level models of the probability that pairs of individuals communicate, we find very large effects of formal organization structure and spatial collocation on the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
soundness of their banks, that product liability law has led consumers to be more careless in the way they use products, and so on. While many of these criticisms are probably exaggerated, it is undoubtedly true that moral hazard is a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Street, raising the specter of a credit market collapse that would cripple the economy. “It is an anxious time. It is probably even a dangerous time. It is a historic time. And it is a time that we’re going to be teaching about in our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Posadas was "my number one choice," despite the region's difficulties. "Because of the financial crisis in 1982, we had the 'lost' decade — and the '90s were probably as lost as the '80s. It's been an uphill battle for most businesses in... View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
a group, investors who met with management were more likely to all buy or all sell the firm's stock in any given quarter, compared with investors who did not meet with executives. A meeting, on average, changed the probability of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
just create a bottleneck somewhere else. Real gains in productivity, he suggested, will probably come from integrated improvements across multiple components of the system. Finally, he offered, the economic barriers in biotech once again... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
Land-camera owners heavy buyers of film. The typical owner of an ordinary camera may buy three or four rolls of film per year. It is not uncommon for owners of the Land camera to buy ten rolls or more. Thus, Polaroid probably sold 15... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
experiences that speak to all people, not just gamers.” What’s your favorite VR game and why? “Ok, let’s just say this answer would probably be different if a few exciting things I’m working on were public knowledge, so stay tuned! But I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
pitching. It is a wonderfully evocative photograph. Thanks for running it. Gordon F. Kingsley (MBA ’59) Wellesley, MA Gambling Ways After all these HBS students learned about the probability of outcomes, and they gamble! They are gambling... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the Democrats are probably unhappy that the Republicans passed the prescription drug law. And some don’t like the fact that it relied on private insurance providers. Do drug companies have sufficient patent protection for new products?... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
characteristics enhances investment performance, collaborating for affinity-based characteristics dramatically reduces the probability of investment success. A variety of tests show that the cost of affinity is not driven by selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
people understand their role in the larger system. You cannot get that quality from a 30-second bite on FOX News. I think it is extremely important to note that the New York Times is a family business. The Times has benefited politically, financially, strategically,... View Details