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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975 to 2002, shows different patterns of adaptation to income across the rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
find that our measure of short-termism is associated with various proxies for accruals and real earnings management, suggesting that our proxy captures not just different disclosure strategies, but also different managerial styles. Next, we View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics. The authors show how enterprising families can transmit the...
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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
you properly troubleshoot and get the team together to solve it? So those are kind of the, I would say, the MBA type skills that come into play. And as much as I don't like to talk about my MBA when I'm making movies, the truth is every movie you have to view as a...
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Art Nature Business
wander through the primordial forest and come upon the sublime vision: the Golden Archway!" JAMES CASEBERE Flooded Hallway , 1998–1999 Dye destruction print Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2003.5 © 2020 James Casebere James Casebere's photograph...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
after inflation — sank by more than a third below their average over the past fifteen years. Thanks to Chimerica, U.S. corporate profits in 2006 rose by about the same proportion above their average share of GDP. But there was a catch....
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
number of women graduating with undergraduate computer science degrees rose through the 1960s and ’70s, until the mid-1980s. In 1985, 37 percent of computer science graduates were women. In 2012, only 18 percent of computer science...
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April White
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
worked well only at the early phase of modern economic growth and would not necessarily become an obstacle for dynamic development as the economies mature. Our research shows that while political institutions and capital markets have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
radiates a benign intensity. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution. The second was that it could be a model for other companies in a similar situation. The economic climate in France was difficult, with companies dying every day. I wanted to...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book explores in detail the View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
serving a cause greater than yourself. And unconventional teams filled with underestimated women, who rose to the moment. And who showed not just what was possible for them, but what was possible for...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
assets—a model that might well hold promise for other parts of rural and postindustrial America that are struggling to reinvent themselves. “I’m here to create jobs and economic opportunity,” Marietta says. “Not just talk about it, but actually View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
the neighborhood. These were people that had just tremendous love. And it was everything from, I think, those bigger lessons, to little things like how to properly prune a rose bush and put it up for winter. Mitch Hill, and I was in...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
way to see that concretely is the distributional implications if passed as is, with no extra top bracket and pass-through at 25 percent. We all know inequality has been rising and it's high. There's recent research showing a substantial...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
international competition. That was a sign that the US was not doing well in businesses that have to compete internationally. The data also showed what many had known—that wages started stagnating well over a decade ago. The participation...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
when things seemed particularly bleak, Owens unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type-A perfectionism and toward letting things unfold organically. The result...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history....
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising...
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