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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of their existing brick-and-mortar... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
managerial paradox: executives must both preserve and change aspects of the business that once made them successful but could render the organization obsolete in the near future. This module will examine several mature businesses that... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
whether, if business was a shaper of global capitalism, it was a force for good, or otherwise. I show that the heterogeneity of business enterprise renders this question challenging to answer, and perhaps misleading even to ask. In the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
results. They advocate using alternative methods for estimating risk-adjusted returns and excluding some observations from our sample. Amihud and Stoyanov claim that making such changes renders our results not significant (though... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
to suggest that the discretionary nature of the peremptory challenge renders it precisely the type of judgment most likely to be biased by race. The need for additional psychological investigation of race and jury selection is emphasized,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
vulnerable to natural disasters, such as flood plains. This would represent a form of moral hazard. Some critics argue, moreover, that unemployment insurance has rendered workers less careful about keeping their jobs, that deposit... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
capabilities in maintaining and upgrading product portfolios through acquisition and divestiture. Acquisitions were financed almost wholly out of retained earnings and income received from divestitures. The resulting overall financial record was impressive. In 1991 its... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
of establishing a natural experiment, but you have to be careful because sometimes the legislature is just "catching up" with common practice, rendering the comparison useless. For example, if the Michigan courts had started... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a "thank-you" to the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
organizations to render aid. If any of our alumni are looking to connect with one another, we recommend using the Alumni Directory together with the secure Alumni Messaging Service to communicate (click on the envelope icon on any alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
states to collect export taxes to finance expenditures, rendered states with higher windfall tax revenues from the export of commodities to spend more on education per capita. Second, we prove that colonial institutions constrained the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
(January 26, 1958) THE QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1958: A staple of long-distance passenger travel as recently as fifty years ago, ocean liners were rendered obsolete by an exciting new development: air travel. But commercial shipping, in an... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
exploitation tends to drive out exploration, rendering organizations rigid and vulnerable to environmental change. Drawing on the Carnegie School, we propose a model where perturbation moderates the relationship between exploitation and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
accomplishes its illumination requirements first and foremost. But it should also be pleasing to the eye and soothing to the spirit. It should render colors accurately, burn efficiently and for a long time, harmonize with interior design,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unexplored, Whitman and Katzenberg say. (photo by Getty/Bloomberg) The demo is the work of director Doug Liman, one of several filmmakers Whitman and Katzenberg consulted to reimagine how a film could be shot, edited, and rendered with a... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
render such efforts and their impacts transient at best? Do firms, in fact, frequently or at least sometimes, behave this way, reducing their earnings by voluntarily engaging in environmental stewardship? And finally, should firms carry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
imprinting is more likely to occur when people do indeed have very similar kinds of career experiences at a particular employer. If people are engaged in entirely different kinds of tasks, rendering very few patterns in the kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details