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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies

Nelson Repenning of MIT draws on firsthand observations of the meteoric rise and ultimate bankruptcy of a disguised Web-based company referred to as Notes.com. Using information gathered at management meetings during the company's brief,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

this one theoretical. What if she could invest in a company doing great things for society, but where the board was 100 percent male? "I invest in them, and file a shareholder resolution," she answered immediately. In introductory comments, Hayes noted that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

expectations. Matt Lynch observes that seconds can drag by on some tasks, namely those associated with high tech applications, while "an hour can pass by barely noticed" on other tasks. In order to cope, we multi-task or engage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

the area of sustainable development.”[4] Upon her return, she observed the impact of water hyacinth upon Nigeria’s waterways. With warming temperatures, the weed has proliferated – depleting fisheries, blocking navigation, and devastating... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

Winston Churchill's observation that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He also had to concern himself with midair refuelings with huge airborne tankers and with battling even the slightest case of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to decline,” View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

chose to avoid a scholastic examination of these mind-numbingly complex maneuvers and Enron's observance of equally complex Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and SEC rules. Following the lead of federal prosecutors, the jury... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 12 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

observed gaps in the prescribing rates of new medicines,” according to the study. The second experiment evaluated the behaviors of 275 patients with hypertension. Patients viewed clinical trial evidence for drugs along with the percentage... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Carving a Niche

years more typical at larger ski manufacturers. “We don’t look at a manufacturing plant as a hole to fill every year,” says Hoye. “It’s more a question of observing what people are trying to do when they ski, and figuring out how to make... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

invest in external R&D to acquire new product lines and in internal R&D to improve their existing product lines. A baseline model derives the theoretical implications of weaker scaling for external R&D versus internal R&D, and the resulting predictions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

hospitals with the aim of discovering organizational factors that contribute to operational failures. We conducted in-depth qualitative research, including observations and interviews of over 80 individuals from 4 nursing units and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

but is also necessary to use tie-breaking for schools whose capacity is sufficient to accommodate some but not all students of a given priority class. We analyze a model that encompasses one-sided and two-sided matching models. We first View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

be approached from the perspective of competitiveness, and it must be based on business opportunities in the inner city that are genuinely profitable," observes Porter, who was named Bishop William Lawrence University Professor last year,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

novelty but are meaningfully reduced by the publication of objective regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

outstanding debt. To illustrate, most press reports peg the current U.S. deficit at $1.5 trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. Most observers believe that the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

OSHA-10/OSHA-30). We also make it easy to share skills and experiences they have (e.g. have worked on a roof). Lastly, by bringing the instructors and career counselors from their schools onto the platform, we let employers hear from the advocate who knows them best.”... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Letters to the Editor

second observation about some public companies not deserving a significant commitment of wealth by sitting directors, I couldn’t agree more. In those cases, the directors should simply resign, or commit to turning around (and investing... View Details
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