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Roy Ben-Dor

the dialogue it fosters," says Roy. "We continually fluctuate in our roles. Sometimes we become teachers and share what we've learned, at other times it's more important to listen and learn from others. It gives you a richer... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

potential approaches to establishing evidence of social influence in partially endogenous networks, and they may be especially persuasive in combination. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-136.pdf Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Pricing Paradise

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • April 1999 (Revised September 2000)
  • Case

Interep National Radio Sales, Inc.

By: Benson P. Shapiro, Stephen X. Doyle and Wade Myers
Interep must mobilize sales information technology, organizational structures, and sales management processes to protect and enhance its strong position as a radio advertising sales firm. Opportunities and risks are high in this complex, rapidly changing sales agency... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Sales; Strategy; Information Technology; Advertising; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Fluctuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Advertising Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

reinsurers may one day cease to exist in their current form, reinsurance will go on.) They should also act more like risk-taking investors and less like risk-averse corporations, their capital fluctuating "with people's decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • September 2010
  • Teaching Note

"Plugging In" the Consumer: The Adoption of Electrically Powered Vehicles in the U.S. (TN)

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for 510076. View Details
Keywords: Customers; Adoption; Non-Renewable Energy; Fluctuation; Price; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Motivation and Incentives; United States
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  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S. from 2010 to 2014, I show that a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

most effectively stabilizes fluctuations under real external shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-074.pdf Patent Trolls By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

fluctuate like trade flows. People come and go. Today, of course, immigration has become a prominent political issue in the US just as the humane treatment of refugees is a current issue in Europe. If possible, let’s put politics aside... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

recently a mere price "spike" in oil, we may be entering an era in which we have to adjust our thinking to prices that fluctuate around, say, $40 per barrel, a level long thought to be unsustainable even by OPEC, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

low-persistence shocks. Section 2 presents evidence on the persistence of macro series. Section 3 presents different strategies to modeling this persistence. Section 4 presents evidence that supports the view that high- and medium-term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Charged Up

two-megawatt power systems, manufactured in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, are also in use in areas as diverse as Chile’s Atacama Desert; Johnson City, New York; and Tehachapi, California, as part of a “smart grid” solution designed to stabilize the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

was transacted, but in many respects it signaled the beginning of the end for Augustine Heard & Co. The new invention reduced the time between orders and transactions, provided more up-to-date information on fluctuations in costs and... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

dependable distribution with internet-enabled inventory control extending all the way into consumer households and businesses. The result is that inventory value in relation to sales in the United States has fallen by more than 50 percent since 1950. That’s a big deal.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 04 Feb 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

"Time and size will see to it that the 'structure' takes control Fluctuation (innovation?) happens more at the fringes and the 'creative' parts of the company, less within the structure. And this is what makes corporations 'age' at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in interest rates cause bond prices to fall. This loss is largest... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 25 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

change was a reality we lived with every day – experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and increases in sea levels that caused thousands of Maldivians to migrate to my city.   ... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

concealable. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/AshrafFieldLee_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries By: Comin, Diego A., Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

  Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to persistent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

entrepreneurship has risen to confront environmental challenges that policy alone been unable to address. Bypassing the political fluctuations that lead to inconsistent and unreliable international promises, she discusses ways that... View Details