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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
the idea initiated by the price of anarchy literature (Koutsoupias & Papadimitriou, 1999; Papadimitriou, 2001) this suggests the study of two major measures for the value of correlation in a game with non-negative payoffs: the ratio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
revenue alone. This public-private partnership helped the city finance and deliver water to millions of people when it did not have the cash or the capability to do it with city resources alone. Second, the public can help the private investors with View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
recently put these two reviews together into an overall plan for the campus over the next six to seven years. So, we have a framework, but the hard work on specific projects is just beginning. BULLETIN: Are there any other initiatives we... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
will they initially tighten standards only to loosen them again as memories of the crisis fade and pressure from industry mounts? Continued vigilance—both now and over the long term—is absolutely essential to prevent another crisis. The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
quickly noticed a disconnect between the English language of an Albanian classroom and the one spoken in a New Haven dorm room, with classmates constantly asking her to repeat herself. Inspired by her experiences both in personal and professional settings, Lakra... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
cases on cluster development initiatives in Costa Rica and Central America. Professor Ketelhöhn holds a DBA from Harvard University; a master's degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Industrial Engineering; and... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Peter Barge, CEO of the newly created Corporate Solutions Group of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), is executing a restructuring of the U.S. corporate real estate services division that will enable the company to offer its clients integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
used in settings with discrete transfers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53978 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States? By: Kirby, William C.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
by radio stations improves their capability to respond to entry by TV stations. Our research builds on and extends literatures on platforms and learning-by-doing and offers practical implications for managers in two-sided market settings.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
organizational needs. Indeed, U.S. law offered entrepreneurs fewer options on how to organize their businesses. Q: In an essay you write that "globalization is a central issue, and perhaps the central issue, in business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
commences with an overview of why industry research is relevant, then offers detailed guidelines on how to approach and what to consider when investigating an industry as part of the analysis necessary to make a decision about investing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
65-year-old person in Southern California and everybody in between. We think there’s a real appetite for this. With our initial free product, we got to over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. We’ve since shifted to a subscription... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Southern leaders. On August 19, he drafted a potentially momentous letter to a Democratic politician and newspaper editor, ending the communication with this proposition: “If Jefferson Davis wishes...to know what I would do if he were to View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are matched with firms that View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
by Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994) HarperBusiness Chugh offers advice on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that we can make the world (and ourselves) better. Being the person we mean to be... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
and to show up at interviews when invited. The government deliberately hired candidates from each group. It's too soon to gauge which group will yield the best performers, since the candidates have just started working. But the initial... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel