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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
these decisions would be easy to make if I knew what consumer demand will be,” Ferreira said. “The problem is that I have a lot of uncertainty in demand.” Ferreira believes that the trick to tactical decision-making lies in quantitative analysis. View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
publishes summaries of working papers written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2017: Why and How Investors Use ESG Information:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
for new enrollees starting in 2020. States would receive a set amount of funding per enrollee each year, letting them administer Medicaid as each sees fit. However, states without the money to fund the difference would likely reduce eligibility or benefits. View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
the face of a new competitive threat. HBR published comments from four management gurus on what DataClear should do. (See Close Up.) Now it's your turn. We have included an excerpt of the case and a summary of the consultants' advice. But... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
paper includes Appendix A, which describes our detailed findings by category. Appendix B, a tabular summary of the 142 studies in our sample, is available on request from the authors. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
"five contexts framework"—issues to consider, in essence—to understand institutional variations between countries. We excerpt a summary of the five contexts. As we helped companies think through their globalization strategies,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
into summary statistics.” You Might Also Like: From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World? How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts'... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
that online prices have longer durations, with fewer price changes close to zero, and hazard functions that initially increase over time. I show that time-averaging and imputed prices in scanner and CPI data can fully explain the differences with the literature. I then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank Abstract—Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making? Summary Answer: We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
electronic media that facilitate and record such interactions, this interest has grown sharply in the business world as well. In this paper, we provide a brief summary of what is known so far, discuss the main challenges for researchers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
illustrate how organizations use and balance these strategies and describes the trade-offs they make as they do so. Because most enterprises should draw from all three As to some extent, the framework can be used to develop a summary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Abstract—Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
the spatial qualities of the Internet with drill-down capabilities in which summary data are provided, the company enables the user to get more detailed data one or two levels down. Data presented in an XBRL format make it easy to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panel on Pedagogical Innovations in MBA Courses
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Faculty Research Symposium 2010 presentation. View a full summary from the link below. Date of Event:May 10, 2010 Speakers:Ray Gilmartin, Joseph Lassiter, Youngme... View Details
- 24 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speakers:... View Details
- 29 May 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower
- 05 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Work-Around Culture: Unintended Consequences of Organizational Heroes
"Work-around cultures" are pervasive in health care. Employees tend to work around obstacles, often feeling like a hero in the process, without solving the underlying problems. The reasons for these cultures are manifold, but they are costly in financial and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator:... View Details