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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
rising prices, an underdeveloped legal system, and volatility in its equity markets. This dichotomy, Yoffie surmised, is an unmistakable sign that something is afoot - as he put it, "a paradigm shift" - glimpsed by conference participants...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
public and government skepticism of the still nascent and highly volatile nonprofit sector? Would Teach For China be able to sustainably scale its model to truly end educational inequality in China? Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
absolutely not. To be sure, companies in developing countries face serious challenges, including political instability, volatile exchange rates, and an underdeveloped physical infrastructure. More critically, they must contend with three...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
acuity, and skilled networking. Such deep smarts, as illustrated through extensive examples of entrepreneurs, are operationalized differently in highly volatile environments than in relatively stable ones. Although deep smarts are based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Business School Case 311-096 How can a company that supplies disaster response and humanitarian agencies best handle the intrinsically unpredictable and highly volatile demand for its products? Utilis is a French supplier of rapid-deploy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
society that should offer a safety net, but also companies, where they recognize that employees are, first and foremost, people who must manage through the volatility we all experience over the course of our lives. Employees are there...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Model outlines the author’s unique leadership principles, what he calls “Personal” and “Professional” Leadership. To illustrate what works and what doesn’t, the author takes readers inside the highly volatile beverage industry and shares...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance developed stronger private equity markets in high volatility sectors over 1990-2004. These patterns are further evident in U.S. investments into Europe. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock price so executives can...
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by Carla Tishler
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
in the period following the second Greek bailout in early 2010. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53996 2018 The New Era of the CCO: The Essential Role of Communication in a Volatile World The Trust...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices, coupled with regulatory changes made by the government, force Colbun to revise its business strategy and its sourcing mix. New legislation will replace...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
correlations of equity cash flow news or stock market volatility shocks. Our findings imply that the benefits of global equity diversification have not declined for long horizon investors despite the secular increase in global stock...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
endogenous investment response of their competitors. As a result, firms overpay for ships and overinvest in booms and are disappointed by the subsequent low returns. Formal estimation of the model suggests that modest expectational errors can result in dramatic excess...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of 2009. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
banking is done through the likes of the repo market and securitization. The behavior of the equity and futures markets during the financial crisis has been living proof of the endurance of well-organized markets. Although we saw dizzying View Details
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
someone that can buy the company. There's less proven exit markets. Second, in more emerging market contexts, there are more macroeconomic shocks and the volatility that comes with that. Then third is this culture of entrepreneurship that...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the lives of two men on a past polar expedition by traveling thirty miles without stopping to eat or sleep.... Here is a key insight for modern leaders: hire for attitude, train for skill. Shackleton understood that the more volatile and...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered,...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
degradation, frequent natural disasters, and critical threats to water supply; population growth by the billions in the coming decades, along with increased urbanization; and a volatile and tentative world economy. In the face of such...
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Sean Silverthorne