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- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found... View Details
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Patrick Chun
by another two with Francisco Partners, a private-equity firm focused exclusively on technology. "It was four years of rigorous advisory and deal work, without a second to spare," says Patrick,... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
Summing Up Do we even need a stringent climate change agreement? Judging from this month's comments, a question can be raised about the necessity of a climate change agreement, stringent or not, as a catalyst to foster innovation and the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
that win-win solutions were possible had made it all seem too easy to achieve results, when it’s not” Speakers called for more rigorous exploration of the choices that needed to be constantly made in progress toward less environmentally... View Details
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE
WAVE, profiling our work within the alumni community and making relevant connections. How is the organization in which you’re involved pursuing social change? WAVE is currently building a movement of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
have a rigorous and transparent procurement process—help landlords, investors, and tenants alike to optimize the whole asset, and not be bogged... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by attracting a larger customer base. And fourth, higher competition intensity need not improve consumer privacy when consumers exhibit low willingness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog
clear, rigorous argument, present detailed substantive recommendations, describe a coherent, internally consistent perspective or point of view, move the discussion forward by posing questions or drawing links between others’ comments,... View Details
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
ideas that hold his greatest interest involve digital marketing, and he has turned to his HBS base for support. “I emailed one of my professors, Mark Roberge, who gave me suggestions for getting started with digital marketing View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
sides of land use proposals. This case demonstrates the dilemmas and tradeoffs related to private land owner rights and the role of government in seeking positive outcomes for broader society. Case students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
reporting is simply common sense, says Ramanna. After all, for the past 30 years accounting scholars have put a lot of effort into building a rigorous set of frameworks and hypotheses to explain View Details
- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success
catalyst for increasing the relevance I could have in Africa." As it turns out, Josh's research at HKS would become the inspiration for the business he would explore at HBS and pursue after graduation.... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
a scientific method in solving problems . Managers focus on making decisions with little information, not through a rigorous review of the details." According to Gerald Nanninga, "A big difference between doctors View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
PublicationsOne Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy Authors:Robert G. Eccles and Michael Krzus Publication:John Wiley and Sons, Inc., forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
suggest that social relations, rather than becoming less relevant in the high-tech age, have become more important than ever. This finding dovetails with the thinking of many corporations, which increasingly employ anthropologists to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
processes that enable such a resolution, have been proposed in various literatures. Attempting to synthesize relevant works on pluralistic control and collaborative heterarchies, this paper proposes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
deliberate learning efforts using both a cognitive (task understanding) and an emotional (self-efficacy) mechanism. We study the proposed framework by means of a mixed-method approach that combines the reach View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne