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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
pursue an MBA, the answer was, "No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us." A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening process top schools use to pick students, and a few View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
humor Professor Sahlman and sign up for his adventurous new course. Wouldn’t they? Sahlman believed he had a conceptual structure for the course that might protect him from the dreaded Onion Outcome. “My goal from the beginning,” he recalls, “was not to dump all of the...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? This paper sets out to help small businesses decide whether it makes sense to offer discount vouchers. Research was conducted by Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman, Business View Details
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by Staff
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
likely economically motivated to invest in OSS projects that can serve as a complementary asset to vendors' core, proprietary businesses. Download this working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be so substantial that an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient...
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by Carla Tishler
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many...
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Sean Silverthorne
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in their contracts, explicit and implicit, and their enforcement. The course also teaches students key insights from the field of international economics. First, economists have conventionally viewed trade policy preferences as being...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
hospitals’ use of managing accruals or cutting discretionary expenditures. Next, I find that hospital managers prefer overbilling to managing accruals (cutting discretionary expenditures) when cutting discretionary expenditures (managing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
businesses to potentially be attacked, but companies with economic moats, we think, should be able to fend off such attacks. And on the upside, we think—and this is our analysts’ view—that certain companies and industries are going to be...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of inquiry and have essentially a presumed stance that we’re going to do both in parallel. As you mentioned, we were generously supported by the Gates Foundation in the research. They have been increasingly interested in economic upward...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan Publication:Journal of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access brings more knowledge and more value." —Julia Hanna Prescription: Leverage Human Nature A couple of years ago, HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf embarked on an ambitious economics experiment in Zambia, a place where close to one...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
equation" seems to be at the forefront of each of their leaders' minds. "I really believe that the most important competitive element a company has are the people who work in it," notes Boise Cascade's Harad. Harad prefers to lead by...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
of Macy’s senior team were rethinking the company’s approach to serving millennial customers, customers born between the years of 1980 and 2000. To tackle this challenge, a dedicated millennial team was created. The team looked at the View Details
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Carmen Nobel