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- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
similar on-demand companies Shyp, Washio, and Caviar. "I think it would be crazy to all of a sudden say that all Uber drivers are employees, because we would be effectively killing the business model" What to make of this brave new world...
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
safe, and with sudden shifts in customer behavior. Of course, the business environment was changing rapidly before 2020. Globalization, new technologies, climate change, and other trends were already disrupting markets. The pandemic...
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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
the pandemic’s suddenness caught many without sufficient ready cash. A real estate CEO noted: “We had ongoing construction and needed to pay our contractors but were not sure that we would receive payments as planned from our customers...
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- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
has a huge mine of data. Reminds me of the California Gold Rush. The only ones to make money out of it were land owners, shovel vendors, and Levi." Tom Dolembo added: "It's like the financial groundhogs have all come out and didn't see their shadow. There is...
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- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
were able to lock in gas prices before the Russian-Ukraine war and have benefitted from very low cost during the winter, while some of their competitors had to stop producing because they could not purchase natural gas due to the View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
the only way to reconcile stock valuations with fundamentals was to believe that the US economy would grow almost forever at rates never seen before or that investors had stopped caring altogether about risk and market volatility. Lots of...
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by Jim Aisner
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
health care so that our economy can improve and so that patients can make informed decisions. We must move away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which incentivizes doing more, and begin paying for good outcomes. Health care organizations need to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
state and local governments, balanced budget requirements force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Most states are required by law to carry balanced budgets and can only borrow to fund capital projects, such as infrastructure improvements....
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by Kristen Senz
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
someone undergoing this dramatic and sudden change to their monthly menstrual cycle, in addition to suffering disruptive symptoms like hot flashes, brain fog, and insomnia to name a few. Despite its prevalence amongst women and as a part...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
really struck me about this, and that I really wanted to ask students about, is that Mark Zuckerberg is a very public figure. He's in every newspaper, every day. TV shows, media. He wants to be that public figure. All of a sudden he gets...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the deposit-taking institution, your...
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- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
to bed, and all of a sudden your cell phone rings and it’s some emergent work issue and you have to take a call and you find yourself beating yourself up because there you go, breaking your promise. You were going to spend time with your...
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
to in July and December. Now, we’ll look at what they have been doing to cope with the circumstances. Forced to stop and rethink every aspect of their businesses from the morning commute to the mission statement, these inspiring CEOs have...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
... you have to take it off and put it on. There's a whole bunch of other things you have to do. It's like, I don't want to lose my driver for data, to basically have that put on. So you start to realize that there's a lot of inconvenient things along the way. All of a...
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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
inflation-indexed bond markets in the U.S. and the U.K. It documents a massive decline in long-term real interest rates from the 1990s until 2008, followed by a sudden spike in these rates during the financial crisis of 2008. Breakeven...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
through which uncertainty affects managerial decision making in the presence of agency conflicts. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50792 Harvard Business School Case 716-468 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nearly all environmental...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
the influx of U.S. and European venture capital firms over the past decade, “many went through boom-and-bust cycles and didn’t survive, or decided to withdraw,” explains Khanna. “Those that remain have stopped doing venture capital the...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-026 'Not so fast...' Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (A) The sudden departure to Hewlett-Packard of a top-level EMC...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Congress and the White House fixed it. We passed a bill in the House and the Senate and got it signed by the President in 48 hours to stop the slowdown of the U.S. air transportation system. Benito Minicucci, Vice President and COO,...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
real job to be done. But in the world of startups, you have to quickly evolve. We needed to raise funding. We evolved away from the job and stopped focusing on the job. We started focusing on more of what we could do rather than what the...
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