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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
the development of transistors, can take decades to develop. Of course, the development of high-level ideas is critical to this process as well, but if it is less and less... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
both coercive options and upside potential, as international negotiators have often done, works against this integrated strategy. If this approach opens a zone of possible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
by forming collaborative agreements with John Maynard Keynes, Lucien March, Corrado Gini, and other prominent economists of the time. Through these contacts, the Harvard method influenced the evolution View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
should publicly and forcefully commit to signing it if there is no acceptable agreement by the end of a single six-month extension of the interim deal. While many worry that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab). After the experiments, participants filled out a short questionnaire about their experience in the lab, indicating their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
(e.g., with "compensation provisions"), one side can help the other, and vice versa, via a number of devices, alone or in combination. These include a) shaping the form of the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
the climate cause.” Alisha Shaparia at COP28 Hugh Shirley, Harvard Medical School “While COP28 was successful for a number of reasons, I wouldn’t list the inclusion of health as a thematic day amongst them.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
terms of the deal and exclusivity agreement already sketched out with Citigroup or to approve a definitive merger agreement with Wells Fargo. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
discuss research possibilities in more depth. Below are snapshot summaries of their presentations. Globalization And Fdi A native of Costa Rica, Professor Laura Alfaro teaches... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
shareholder value. While it may be argued that in the past, cities and business have contributed to today’s environmental predicaments, it can also be said that, going forward, environmental remediation is not possible without them.... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
there are a few for-profit charter school companies. The schools have their own boards of directors, and usually are not obligated to abide by any collective bargaining agreements that exist for teachers and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost generation. Did you get a sense of people’s outlook toward the future? Under the new leadership View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg