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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
have a differentially lower response to these perceived benefits. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1590245 Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
responses that was universal across all firms was to deploy more of their own capital to seek higher returns. Derivative, mortgage, and private equity markets, to name three, were places were firms went to seek out these kinds of higher...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Disaster Relief Fund. In an e-mail to classmates, they explained, "These men and women moved selflessly into the buildings, and there is no eloquence that properly captures the balance of the lives they saved and the sadness of their own...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
position today,” says HBS professor Forest Reinhardt, who heads the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. An expert on the environment who began teaching at HBS in 1992, Reinhardt now teaches the elective Energy, a course he introduced in 2006 in View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has become an aspirational status symbol. A series of studies shows that the positive inferences of status in response to busyness and lack of leisure are driven by the perceptions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
between men and women—as opposed to hiring biases, gender discrimination, or a hostile workforce—were at least partially responsible for the low numbers of women in tech. At the time, 20% of Google’s tech workforce, and 31% of its overall...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program manager at Adobe and responsible for coordinating the integration of her business unit's product—Device Central—in Creative Suite 3. Murray is copied on an email that...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Survey responses show that immigrants value networking capabilities in CIC more than natives, and the networks developed by immigrants at CIC tend to be larger. Immigrants report substantially greater...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
budget of $2 million. Together they must develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent. Purchase this exercise: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909040 Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
boards (PCBs) in-house rather than buying them from third-party contract manufacturers. Stryker Corporation's Instruments business is considering the proposal in response to difficulties with existing suppliers. The case requires students...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
supply expenses are provided. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55343 Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds By: Baker, Malcolm, Daniel Bergstresser, George...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
lawyer, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century, the Johnstown Flood,...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
demand that have the same effect on marginal cost. Lastly, if consumers experience regret or disappointment when faced by increased prices, the model can explain why prices can be more rigid in response to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE—one of America’s biggest and most-heralded corporations—for direction. Over the next sixteen years, Immelt would lead GE through many more dire moments, from...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known....
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