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- 27 May 2014
- News
How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
the CEO of its U.S. subsidiary and his challenge to sustain the company's exceptional growth in the face of an unprecedented slowdown in the U.S. construction industry. The case also offers a window into the processes and related issues...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
preservation of the endowment's purchasing power. Each year the Harvard Corporation approves the final distribution amount. Funds within the HBS endowment, along with those of the other Harvard schools, are managed by Harvard View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his responsibilities to include View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
make it the norm. August 2013 Management Science Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization By: Iancu, Dan, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract—This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto e ciency in the context of the...
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Anna Secino
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
poverty? A: Yes, there are many. Here are two: DaimlerChrysler some years ago, under pressure from the Green Party in Germany, decided it had to increase the amount of renewable resources it used in the manufacture of its cars. The View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the economics, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
important example. In 2003, the company's Indian subsidiary refocused its efforts on the country's rural poor in the face of growing competition from new market entrants. By training and hiring low-income, community-based saleswomen, the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
business economics from Harvard. Fung is one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen, serving as chairman of Prudential Asia, the Asian investment management subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Company...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I...
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- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to...
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Personal Services
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group-one of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
in the area. The product had been in development for years prior to the disaster, says Polatoğlu, developed to address a rise in natural disaster–related emergencies caused by climate change. “Moreover, we have designed a special supply-chain View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers...
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Martha Lagace