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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
a pioneer - in the process of capturing customer information, mining that information for value, and converting the information into shareable knowledge, which is then communicated among workers through robust electronic networks. For... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We determine, in a competitive setting, the optimal operating regimes for a firm that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars worldwide this year, while money-losing GM will cut production (after manufacturing an estimated 9.08 million vehicles in 2005). Increasingly, the glory days seem a thing of the past. How... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
Number 6: Consideration of ESG factors might create a conflict with fiduciary duty for some investors. Reality: Many ESG factors have been shown to have positive correlations with corporate financial performance and value, prompting ERISA in 2015 to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsDesign: More Than a Cool Chair Harvard Business School Note 607-026 This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions of geographic clustering,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-035.pdf Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring Authors:Andrew Hill and David Thomas Abstract Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
in their business model—defects that numerous outsiders noted from day one. It was a classic case of wishful thinking. Q: How can managers without executive authority spot the warning signs of denial and help View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
shift in academic thinking about the role of government may be required-involving nothing less than a reversal of the prevailing null hypothesis in the study of political economy. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
professional and personal—we need either to transfer knowledge we have built up over years of experience from our heads to someone else's (our children, a junior colleague, a peer) or we have the reverse need: to somehow access those bits... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Profitability Around the World Authors:Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, labor market competition, and government efficiency affect the rate of mean View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
University - which will inherit two small stadiums built for Olympic field-hockey competition. After the Games, the two schools will share the facilities, with one stadium being converted for track and field and the other for college... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
HawkinsHarvard Business School Note 111-073 Background note for cases dealing with intercorporate investments. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111073-PDF-ENG Merck/Schering-Plough... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
limited the competitive structure of the economy. Silverthorne: In a chapter on business ethics and corruption, you and colleague Janet Hunter note that the country has struggled with corruption (as have other developing and Western... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
clause and a reverse termination fee, the potential damages if Hexion/Apollo breached the agreement were uncapped. As the credit markets deteriorated in late 2007 and into 2008 and Huntsman turned in disappointing financial results, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technology would provide the country with greater agricultural production, a major source of exports, without the need to convert additional areas of the Cerrado or Amazon to farmland. However, producers have been slow to adopt it due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace