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- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal Housing View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
penicillin for Canada's armed forces, provided American Home Products with a learning base in the antibiotic revolution at its very beginning. Early in the postwar era, American Home Products moved out of chemicals but continued to expand its other lines, both by View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
call centers, with their attendant voice response units (VRUs—also known as automated voice response systems), need not be so inefficient. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology and View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
students with the opportunity to role play these difficult yet important performance-review discussions. It is suitable for Sales, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, and Entrepreneurial Management courses. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
The Political Economy of Carbon Trading (TN)
Teaching Note for 710056. View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
when employees are faced with this entrepreneurial gap? They must use their energy and creativity to figure out how to succeed without direct control of the resources they need. Thus, managers can adjust these two spans to stimulate... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53563 The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond By: Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru Abstract—Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in this country have no View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
include a rich discussion of corporate taxation. Like tax competition, many fundamental issues in taxation are relevant for individuals and businesses, so much of my work ought to be useful to both. Q: What are the most important trends in public View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3
Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011 Abstract Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
International Christopher M. Gordon and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 212-056 Dirigo International is proposing a major expansion of their life sciences research and manufacturing facilities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). High taxes will favor firms that can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
deep historical origins of 'born global' companies; the importance of networks and diaspora in new international market development; the key role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace