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- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
and faces different climate challenges. Mumbai’s skyline, alternating between high–rises and informal settlements. Mumbai’s coastline faces significant exposure to rising sea levels. Planning is Only the First Step One topic that came up... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
That’s what we’re building: an alternative path to the traditional form of higher education. “We’ve already seen success. We’ve taken people without college degrees and have consistently placed them into incredibly high-paying jobs after... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk envisionment, aiming to provide top... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
What does it need to do on the financing side to accommodate the transition of its business model? The company is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is thinking about issuing additional convertible bonds to finance its growth. What is the funding need? What are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
stability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51049 in press Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy: Economic Reasons of State, 1500–2000 Achtung! Banditi! An Alternate Genealogy of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
under what conditions should they settle so that they, as well as PZU, are satisfied? If not, what other potential alternatives might exist? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912014-PDF-ENG Poles Apart on PZU... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
using broadband. We expect that advertising dollars will increasingly go to these alternative venues, due in part to the lack in productivity of the advertising dollars in traditional newspapers, magazines, and television. The ability to... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Controlling for alternative drivers of sales and inventory shrinkage, we find this change in incentive design to be associated with a profit improvement of 4.2% of sales. This work indicates that altering how store managers are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
physicians whether an available alternative drug was more or less costly than the advertised drug, primarily because physicians are not always aware of drug prices. Economic research is needed on the comparative transaction prices of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
punctuated by bursts of progress until an agreement is reached or breakdown occurs. Decision makers make hard choices (such as to make an unfavorable concession) only when they lack more attractive alternatives and doing nothing is not an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Then, students view alternative ways of making each call. The materials are intended to build skills and awareness relevant to personal selling and, in particular, to the role and importance of “up-front contracts” in structuring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We also explore alternative mechanisms—changes in sex ratios, natives’ cultural... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
individuals to enroll in weight loss programs, without a decrement in program effectiveness. Future research could explore the cost effectiveness of such subsidies or alternative designs. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
abandon, this strategy over a two-year period. We find that formal statistical tests of the hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Performing Arts: Alternative Futures Allen Grossman and Coleman RadellHarvard Business School Case 311-099 Ren Levy took over Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts when it was a group of warring constituents and has successfully brought... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
the way, you’ll have a significant piece of ownership, and that group of search investors will be your partners. That’s the funded search. RR: And the downside of that is that they take a lot of the ownership for themselves. The View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Negotiation Journal BATNAs in Negotiation: Common Errors and Three Kinds of 'No' By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—The Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement (“BATNA”) concept in negotiation has proved to be immensely useful. It is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
understanding of how morals emerge. By offering an in-depth read of a given context, my hope is to help readers think through the hopes and limits of the described model, but also alternative ones. Second, the book might prove helpful to... View Details