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- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
'69) — who was known as Arthur S. Warshaw while at HBS and is now an American Sikh — has helped weave spirituality into the very fiber of Khalsa International Industries, a Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
assistance, the Treasury should contribute capital by purchasing common shares. As a result, the Treasury is likely to hold a majority ownership of the bank's common shares, while the ownership interests of other shareholders will be reduced. This is not permanent...
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- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
night of bidding between eight groups, the best bid was in the high $60-million range. The sell-side team, comprised of bankers from the Blackstone Group and Greenhill, and lawyers from Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland & Ellis, is forced...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
member, ed tech veteran, and current cofounder and managing partner of Ethical Ventures, a management consultancy dedicated to social enterprises. In its first month, the Business for Racial Equity Pledge was signed by more than 1,000...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Harvard Business Review Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? By: Garvin, David A. Abstract—The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a personnel management innovation, referred to as People...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Blackstone Group had conducted a roll-up of theme parks and attractions business in Europe. It was considering how to generate liquidity for its investors. Blackstone entered the theme parks and attractions business in Europe by acquiring...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
Business Track Winners Dubilier Grand Prize: RapidSOS: uses technology to revolutionize emergency response. Satchu-Burgstone Runner-Up Award: Be Mixed: a natural and zero-calorie beverage mixer. Student Social Enterprise Track Winners...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ reported a deficit of new idea sharing in their intercultural but not intracultural ties. In Study 3, a laboratory experiment involving a collaborative task, higher...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
member would select three to five papers for grading by the entire group of readers. We would use those benchmarking sessions to try to assure that evaluations were consistent from reader to reader.” Wailes later became one of only a few...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a social loss function. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13622 New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
kind of situation that may call for their leadership. At times, leadership requires collaboration and at other times command control. Historically, out-of-power groups often develop skill sets that include greater observation, knowledge,...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
to think about that, is if you had looked at a group of Americans in 1870 and described them, you would've said “American citizens.” By 1920 that group has become “American consumers.” So there's a flip. And...
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- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
chapter identifies how social and political institutions shaped the region's market-based economies, the origins of these institutional arrangements, and the origins and impact of institutions from the less-studied post-socialist...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government of British Columbia. These...
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