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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
the current system. Otherwise businesses will lose profitable opportunities and find themselves in the middle of disputes that hurt their future prospects. And poor countries... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
think? Deshpandé: She made an impact on her industry in terms of being able to be successful in both parallel and mainstream cinema. These are two different audiences, an upper middle class intelligentsia... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
work, which means they probably won’t work. This is in contrast to probability government, which is the pursuit of programs and services that “work” but often achieve middling outcomes. Probability... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
Research. Kerr is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management. “If your group is concentrated, you are making an extra premium over what others in the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Sebenius and Kimberlyn LearyHarvard Business School Case 912-017 The Abraham Path Initiative board faces strategic and negotiating challenges in revitalizing a route of Middle East cultural tourism following... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
wrought by Wall Street's first panic, the New York legislature acted quickly to ban outdoor securities auctions and a popular class of financial instruments known as "time bargains," both of which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
“class,” I recognize some who later came to HBS. More probably ended up in other MBA programs. And others probably concluded that business wasn’t for them. To this day the program still thrives. So here we are, 37 years later, with an HBS... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
offered in the lounges—showers, spa, Internet connection, appetizing free food and drinks, along with the opportunity to rest during a layover—is exceptional value to members. There is even a higher View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
unique case, with most of its companies owned by either the state or large families, and lacking checks and balances such as shareholder voting and class action lawsuits that, in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
understanding of factors beyond prediction accuracy—such as transparency and perceived fairness—that managers need to consider when deciding which predictive algorithm to deploy. The class discussion also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
America small-business owners moved quickly when COVID-19 started shuttering shops in March. Fine dining restaurants shifted to takeout. Book shops introduced curbside pickup. Gyms offered classes online. Business owners, it seemed, just... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
stockholder gave them privileged access to bank finance. When bank lending practices changed in the middle of the century, this access-to-credit advantage associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details