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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2010
- Teaching Note
Chrysler's Sale to Fiat (TN)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Lena G. Goldberg
Teaching Note for 210022. View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
30 seconds,” recalls the feisty octogenarian. “I had spent previous summers hauling up 125-pound, wooden lobster traps, so my upper body strength exceeded his.” Summers spent lobstering in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and a competitive spirit—along with an View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49783 January 2018 Journal of Financial Economics The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence Across Countries By: Lerner, Josh, Antoinette Schoar,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
staying away or unable to pay and rising costs for personal protective gear and new technology. “Compounding the problem, SUD treatment and prevention programs risk draconian cuts to public funding as states experience View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
infrastructure; and soaring costs all threaten to detract from the good vibes of the Games, which begin Friday. As of two weeks ago, Sochi had sold only 70 percent of tickets—compared to 97 percent for the Vancouver Games four years... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
Green and Black's, and Coca Cola purchasing a significant interest in HonestTea.) As the authors write, "Making a virtuous mouse and rich elephant merger work is a delicate, but potentially high-value undertaking in terms of generating both greater View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01) (Harvard Business Press) In today’s economy, executives must slash costs while planting seeds for tomorrow’s growth. Anthony explains how: by pruning your business... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
reverts faster in countries with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Management Science The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth By: Khan, Urooj, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen Abstract—We investigate the relation between the growth in corporate profits and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
while effective, are the “low hanging fruit” in meeting sustainability goals. “Going those last few yards to become 100 percent waste-free costs much more than the earlier steps,” agrees HBS’s Marquis. “The marginal View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library
Business Leaders is a biographical guide of 96 Asian Americans who have had successful business careers. These life stories reflect individual triumphs as well as the trials of families and ethnic groups who have applied their skills and passions for View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
were holding, which could save many lives, cost just ten cents per package. In introducing the panelists, who represented a variety of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Levy said that "NGOs are critical sources of information and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
paper develops a framework that defines the roles of customers and investors in intermediaries and uses the framework to provide an economic foundation for the aversion to intermediary credit risk on the part of its customers. It further... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in... View Details