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  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

for the next round, assuming that the other players merely repeat their previous bids. We focus on a strategy we call Balanced Bidding (BB). If all players use the BB strategy, we show that bids converge to a bid vector that obtains in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

"One of the marks of a truly dominant intellectual paradigm is the difficulty people have in even imagining an alternative view." Do you think business scholarship has lost sight of social welfare issues? A: Our data suggest... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences with traditional borrowing, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Laurence A. Tisch

    the brothers next took to expanding Loew’s into the hotel business, buying hotels in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By 1968, the brothers had built Loews into the third... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
    • 25 Jun 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: June 25

    governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the transformation from owner and manager... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 02 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 2

    former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment opportunities,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 5

    a differentially higher response to these benefits. The results, robust to numerous alternative hypotheses and specifications, suggest IFRS adoption is self-reinforcing, which,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 20

    returns to entering the product market and their profit thresholds. Depending upon the magnitude of these differences, we propose alternative commercialization outcomes. This model helps View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 11, 2009

    contexts. Empirical results reveal that special items receiving income statement presentation are less persistent relative to those receiving footnote presentation. These results are consistent across numerous View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 7

    capitalizations are afraid that a return to the wasteful state-owned enterprises of the past is imminent. In this essay we propose two alternative views. First, we stress the resilience of state-owned... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Jul 2017
    • Blog Post

    “Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”

    who’s in charge of what?” Their marketing strategy pitches Tim Hortons in the middle, offering white collar and upper class professionals a superior alternative to convenience store coffee. Unlike many... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 23 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 23, 2015

    pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in "sin" industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

    Even some of the forum participants, says Leonard, "didn't think what we are calling for is either appropriate for or likely to come from business and business leaders." And while Leonard agrees that some of the criticisms are valid, "the... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 14 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

    alternatives to regulation—one of which is the voluntary disclosure of information. That is perhaps the critical issue, I think, for environmental performance. "We needed a way of getting information... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
    • 07 Oct 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

    Switch Habits Juul vaping products have become a cigarette alternative for adult smokers and a growing concern among parents of teens. What the company did initially to head off concerns. Cost-cutting Leads... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
    • 15 Apr 2015
    • Blog Post

    Subverting Career Trajectories

    alternatives out there for us—otherwise we wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here in the first place. The toughest part of HBS for me has been reminding myself that although the MBA feels like a detour... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

    deals, even attempts, have been bigger. For example, Brazilian firm Companhia Vale do Rio Doce successfully acquired most of Canadian nickel company Inco Limited for $19 billion last year, and Chinese petro giant CNOOC tried, but failed, View Details
    Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
    • 01 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1, 2008

    more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 8, 2016

    March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central planning; entrepreneurship without... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 15

    only what is traded, proves integral to constructing legitimacy, thus suggesting a practice-based view of moral markets. The professionals, including a group of "gatekeepers," construct a narrative distinction between their own... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne