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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
there is actually no systematic evidence on this subject. Given that dearth of evidence, I adopted the research strategy of picking an interesting sector and zooming in on a particularly interesting case...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
and build technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical...
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Carmen Nobel
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
School’s forecast. The total number of faculty, as measured in FTEs, can rise or fall in any given year, reflecting retirements, departures, and fluctuations in recruiting activity. Net of retirements and departures, the size of the HBS...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
activity. Fiscal 2019 was a successful year for faculty recruiting and promotions. Fourteen candidates accepted assistant professor positions. Ten faculty members received promotions to associate or tenured positions. Net of retirements...
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
was spurred by high profits. Typical cable systems outside the top 100 markets earned rates of return on net investment (before taxes and interest expense) over 40 percent. 9 Wired Cities: 1970-1975 (10)...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books at Marvel? They will always be very important. In a sense, comic books are our R&D function. What is unique is that we have a very profitable R&D effort with triple-digit ROI and net margins of...
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- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
sellers of CDS protection are an important determinant of CDS spread movements. I first establish that markets are dominated by a handful of net protection sellers, with five sellers accounting for nearly half of all View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
undertake positive net present value projects. These projects typically reflect the comparative advantages of the firm and are the raison d'être of the firm. "Passive" risks are risks associated with investments when returns are...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
competing interests to varying degrees. We disagree with the argument that a separate CSR report "empowers" other stakeholders by treating them as a separate and distinct audience deserving of its own report. Instead, it View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code...
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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. F. Warren McFarlan: Donations matter more than ever This is the time when tangible support really matters as the funding sources are drying up for so many social enterprises. Your support may be the View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
run gas and water distribution systems in diverse urban and rural locations throughout mainland China—often in the face of entrenched local interests who could have blocking power. Discussions with HKGC's negotiation teams revealed an...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it....
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
its origins at the Harvard Business School in the late 1920s. Over the following century, the editors show that the discipline and its practitioners often found themselves on the margins of academic discourses and their own institutions....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
an unconvincing 1 percent loyalty reward to customers already represents a reduction of 30 percent to 50 percent of the retailer's net profits. When margins are low, the sustainability of loyalty rewards...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for a deep discussion of the bases for variable compensation in sales, including observability of effort and outcome, risk aversion, team vs. individual pay and the marginal impact of effort. The context is also an View Details
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Martha Lagace