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19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery, propelling new civic demands for state... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

Research Topics Suggested Resources Private Equity - Funds, Firms, Transactions, etc. Pitchbook
Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board

firm that cares about good corporate governance.” I believe the way to good corporate governance is to add only the highest quality individuals to boards. In some ways, we used to have an unspoken quota system for boards. It was that men... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

School can serve you. Here is a brief summary of our work thus far this year. Online Services for Alumni This committee has identified the following specific goals to accomplish by its spring meeting: increase the number of e-mail... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a midlife decision to study the... View Details

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Working PapersEconomic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

don’t have to go through an intermediary to access these choices. Some people would contend that the consumer has more control.” Similarly, consumers can have a greater say over how their financial assets are managed—from opting for a low-cost View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

analyze all questions and answers from the inception of the Google Answers service through November 2003, and I find notable trends in answerer behavior: more experienced answerers provide answers with the characteristics askers most... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

although research on this topic has often focused on high technology manufacturing companies, I have written extensively on the service sector, on business groups and alliances rather than hierarchical corporations, and on the different... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

was offering a perfect information service (i.e. one that enabled consumers to find what they want most quickly and efficiently), it would be losing valuable potential revenues. Hence the incentive to attract users with products that they... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

in the power space, where corporates like Heineken or the Garden City Mall in Nairobi will pay the fully loaded cost of electricity to firms like Symbion Power or CrossBoundary Energy. These power producers provide direct services to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial of View Details

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

system of subsidiaries. The second common mistake is the "too clever by half" approach. There is a common temptation to overemphasize every financial and pecuniary angle on these decisions without understanding that these... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

services produced. (GameStop, for example, is up more than 900 percent YTD.) “That means, in the medium to long term, these stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services