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- 01 Aug 2022
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Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
transportation such as rail and water over the use of JIT strategies. Shoshanah Cohen commented, “I wouldn’t say those days are over, but until we get back to the point where lead times are both short AND... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
University professors Suresh Nallareddy and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, analyze data created by tax filings to compare effects on workers at varying compensation levels in different US states with and without tax cuts. The result: Tax... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
- September 2011
- Article
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality." Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–309. (We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of financial development. First, structural conditions first postulated by
Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously-determined political instability in turn holds back financial development, even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of
financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations like the World Bank that seek to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which is consistent with current tests as valid instruments. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work,
and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability — persistently predict a wide range of national financial development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960's, the period when the key data becomes available, robust
in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable regressions, and consistent across multiple measures of instability and of financial development. Overall, the results indicate the existence of an important channel running from structural inequality to political instability, principally in nondemocratic settings, and then to financial
backwardness. The robust significance of that channel extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes, cures, and effects quite distinct from those of many of the key institutions most studied in the past decade as explaining financial backwardness.)
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General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
landmark National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Lerner and five colleagues at the University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Chicago, and the US Census Bureau cuts through some of the fog to reveal for... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy? By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Maya Reddy Abstract—In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India were redrawn for the first View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
sticker from the nonprofit. While the women discuss their respective micro-enterprises and how they might invest their pooled savings, Cruz’s adopted daughter plays with some children nearby. For Trickle Up president and CEO Nathalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Research Summary
Corporate Governance
The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details
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My research draws upon social and cultural theories to address three important topics in marketing: branding strategy, organizing to deliver creative content, and cultural consumer behavior:
1)Branding Strategy: How are iconic brands built?
I have... View Details
Trust
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
the process side of the class discussion. This includes planning for the structure, sequencing, and timing of discussion segments ("pastures"), as well as the types of questions, organization of boards, transitions, and other discussion... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
After spending three years working in consulting before coming to HBS, I knew I wanted to use my summer to expand beyond the world of Board of Directors advisory and multi-national company strategic planning and try something completely... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
Associates (New York City), in a recent company publication. "Business units have used their budgets as a bargaining chip, bidding high to get a larger slice of the pie while keeping their cards close to their chest. "The View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
discussions that make the case method such a powerful learning experience. In a related step, for the first time this year, we are offering an RC course called Data Science for Managers to help students, as general managers, View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Frequently Asked Questions - Crossover Into Business
the program? We do not, no. Your league may be willing to reimburse you for those expenses – we will reach out to you with more information upon admission into the program. I am a professional athlete. How much time and effort am I... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Summer 2013
- Article
A Tale of Two Stories: Sustainability and the Quarterly Earnings Call
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability, either in general or because the time frames in which it matters are too long. The response of... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Communication; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Environmental Sustainability
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "A Tale of Two Stories: Sustainability and the Quarterly Earnings Call." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 25, no. 3 (Summer 2013): 66–77.
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
networks—or the degree to which a network is divided into “communities,” or silos—before and after lockdowns were imposed in early 2020. Using models and so-called “network maps” to plot communication patterns, the authors uncovered... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald