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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
taxes. We use the model to evaluate the welfare consequences of a range of alternative policies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533977 Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
negotiating. The plaintiffs are the patent holder and its sole licensee, who is also a CKC competitor. (This case is a revised, alternative version of "C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (Abridged)," HBS No. 607-006.) Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
had promised Wall Street—were fraught with risk. Senior executives must evaluate the seriousness of the risks and identify alternative ways of integrating the two firms, while safeguarding the technologies that process and clear a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
specific alternative mechanism that could reduce the amount of strategizing by bidders, raise search engines' revenue, and also increase the overall efficiency of the market. We conclude by showing that advertisers' strategic behavior has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
and forced a major reexamination of how investment decisions are made at Blackstone, resulting in changes with a significant positive impact on the firm's success. Today, Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
They are there to decide. And in business, you must often decide quickly, without complete information or the time to consider every alternative or resolve every uncertainty. Because, of course, to decide slowly is sometimes to decide too... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
didn’t provide value to corporations,” says Chertavian. “The deficit in skilled workers is projected to reach 14 million over the next decade, and a lot of companies realize they would be well served to identify alternative sources of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
market, namely, limited exit and new investment opportunities. As Enfoca faced an aging fund, its leadership team began considering alternatives to the traditional private equity fund model. This case presents an example of a local... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
overwhelming majority of people believe trying to calm down is the best way to cope with pre-performance anxiety. However, across several studies involving karaoke singing, public speaking, and math performance, I investigate an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
to Microsoft! The "Windows persistence" result turns out to be robust to different specifications of the model. In fact, in the first few months into the project we had developed several alternative models and every one of them... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
strategy necessary for people to begin the hard work of extracting that wedge. This book helps readers become aware when wedging is happening to them, illustrates what wedging tactics look like, and provides alternative ways to think... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We explore alternative mechanisms—changes in sex ratios, natives’ cultural responses, and displacement effects... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
opportunities in the likes of London, Barcelona, Beijing, and Singapore. It's not easy, and it's not fun. But the alternative is even worse - a twisting, slow decline that squanders value. At first blush, the natural inclination for many... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
supported this prediction. Auxiliary analyses suggest that contrast effects and non-random scheduling of interviews are unlikely alternative explanations. Six Myths of Product Development Authors:Stefan Thomke and Donald Reinertsen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
firms to evaluate choices and measure the value of alternative collaboration approaches. A second focus is to develop a better understanding of where firms should collaborate. We have seen examples that challenge the conventional wisdom... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
remember what you learned? Most people will not remember. There’s a chance that in the next five, 10 years, the traditional institutions that navigate well are going to do just fine, but I think you’re going to see a lot of alternative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
chorus of criticism directed at business schools from within their own ranks; and the implicit challenge represented by the rise of for-profit, online, and other alternatives to the traditional MBA. Biddle’s implicit question is as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
a beaten track, people often try to steer you toward seemingly easier alternatives "for your own good." But for those who would blaze a new trail, I suggest a three-pronged focus: Embrace self-empowerment. Knowledge is power, and... View Details