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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

these sections that turned out to be the participants' favorite part, according to Hart. Hart discussed entrepreneurship as an alternative to corporate careers. "But," she explained, "I was careful to disabuse them of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

“Sugarcane EVA is a preferred material because it is made using swift-growing, rainwater-fed, renewable sugarcane. Using sugarcane provides a more sustainable alternative to petroleum-based, non-renewable materials often used in... View Details
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

biggest, challenges facing my generation. Shared, electric, autonomous vehicles will enable urban areas to become more sustainable and more livable by providing a better alternative for first and last mile transportation.” Initiatives... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

nontraditional way. There are numerous paths to leadership, and they don't all involve running a major corporation or being an entrepreneur." Alternative Work Situations The variety of paths to leadership often becomes apparent when women... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

alternative could be joint partnerships in which banks fund the small businesses they wish to, and direct those that they are unable to fund to a vetted third-party fintech partner. While this is practice has become the law in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 23 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

respond in very different ways. You have to be prepared." Innovators who are working on solving a problem can benefit from alternating between the roles of creator and critic. At times when we are presented with a new idea, we immediately... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e., they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

supplier thinks about ways to get the product/service out to the customer. If the company achieves its sales goals, it lulls the company into the assumption that the channels must be right. For all you know an alternate channel might have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

displace traditional hydrocarbons as the primary source for energy, particularly for large scale transportation, for at least the next 10 to 15 years. We think, and I personally believe, that traditional demand for hydrocarbons will continue to grow, even as technology... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much cash as large privately held firms, a surprising finding that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

information when told that previous respondents have made sensitive disclosures. We provide evidence of the process underlying this effect and rule out alternative explanations by showing that information on others' propensity to disclose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

director and the quality of the prior LBO experience. This effect is robust to the most likely alternative explanations and supports the idea that directors and social networks play an influential role in change-of-control transactions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this... 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
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 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