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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled functional components. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Environmental Strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict the outcomes. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility, as well as for studies relating social responsibility ratings with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
outside counsel do so at their companies’ peril. To avoid the kinds of recent blunders that have brought scandal and financial disaster to some of the country’s best-known corporations, Bagley believes that general managers need to raise... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shifts into opportunities for even greater success. In 1985, Martin Sorrell was ready for a change. He had spent nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, helping the London-based advertising firm reach superstar status with his strategic and View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
‘cost-out’ to seeing it as a value creation lever. One that most businesses need to learn how to manage just as effectively as, and align with, their financial performance”. van Poecke and Schoonbeek started researching the evolution of... View Details
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and products that: help faculty develop courses to achieve their learning objectives; provide in-depth research support from our information experts and global network; help faculty, students, staff, and alumni to access and use world... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
We are in the greatest crisis of our lifetimes—even worse than 9/11 and the 2008-09 financial meltdown that triggered the Great Recession. This crisis is directly affecting every person, even those who don’t recognize it yet. Now is a... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23
http://www.amacad.org/publications/Challenges.aspx Advertising, the Matchmaker Authors:Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar Publication:RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (summer 2011) Abstract We empirically study the informational role of advertising in matching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise prices between the time shoppers pick up a View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
community to rally support and aid for the victims of this tragic event. If you have a story or news to share, please email us at alumni_communications@hbs.edu. WHERE TO GIVE We offer the following suggestions of organizations for those wishing and able to provide... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
tolerate human rights abuses, Spar advocates that multinationals and human rights are not such strange bedfellows as once thought. Reebok, for instance, created a new production facility in Pakistan and established a system of independent... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins and Gulati discovered, the top executives' connections... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark