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- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
ideas in management and applied economics. They include a wide range of topics, including several drawn from what have come to be known as neuro economics (how managers really think and act), behavioral economics, phenomena of irrational... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
implies that the side effects associated with periods of rapid growth generate sufficient difficulties that periods of retrenchment are sure to follow. Neoclassical economics teaches us to examine not just the short-run supply and demand... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
collaborate with partners; being able to manage the conflicts of interest inherent to such compete-collaborate relationships; knowing how to monetize the value created by the ecosystem (which member of the ecosystem is needed... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
economic turmoil creates both business destruction and opportunity is one of a series of insights emerging for readers of recent HBS interviews with two prominent Turkish business leaders: Hamdi Akın, chairman of Akfen Holding and Rahmi... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
helps the advertiser, then the ad might go viral. The stakes are high for advertisers. eMarketer estimates that online video advertising in the United States will increase from $1.1 billion in 2009 to $4.1 billion in 2013—an overall... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US Census micro data on firm-level output, R&D and patenting. The model provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
was surprising. We know that there was likely to be some degree of performance persistence, but the magnitude was quite striking.Q: Given the current economic conditions, do you have any advice for entrepreneurs who are considering... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
relative to the world at large. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2498737 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-123 Making Progress at IDEO This case focuses on different types of client relationships at IDEO, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
create value for shareholders. This month, for example, when Trian Partners, under the leadership of cofounder and CEO Nelson Peltz, wanted to tell investors why GE was an undervalued company, it posted an 81-page analysis online for... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
advantage; however, that advantage can narrow as the rest of the world catches up or as we become complacent. I think that as individual countries try to catch up, they will become more "American" and make very conscious and painful political and View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
truth is anything but— "it's about reviving companies," says Gilson, author of the 2010 book Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups . Reviving The Economy Taking a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
GE’s transition from Jack Welch to Jeff Immelt. In 20 years at the helm, Welch had grown shareholder value from $14 billion to $400 billion and Fortune had named him “Manager of the Century.” Immelt, meanwhile, went on to preside over the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
behalf of families and (b) bank forbearance policies regarding overdrawn customers. We focus on five factors to explain the incidence of involuntary closures: personal traits, community traits, economic trends, bank policies, and credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
four decades. "There are many people who believe the government is doing too much, and that the government interferes with economic growth if it enacts and implements policies around climate change; therefore, they choose not to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
http://or.journal.informs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/60/5/1199.full.pdf+html Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Authors:Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Scott... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
company to increase capacity, despite high consumer demand for its economically priced two-wheeler. For 15 to 20 years, the scooter had a ten-year delivery period, Bajaj recalled in his interview. To those not familiar with India's closed... View Details