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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
researchers credit to the early actions of local political leadership and governmental agencies that encouraged public-private housing partnerships. Different locales do seem to have developed different conceptions of what is appropriate...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
Conservative? Towards a Theory of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail McIntosh Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the role of standard setters in a standard setting. In particular, we examine how the backgrounds and personal...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
and the supervised ML coding of facial images with a neural network algorithm. We employ these novel methods to study CEO oral communication, using videos and corresponding transcripts of emerging market CEO interviews to conduct our...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
America was, is, and should be: diverse, tolerant, open-minded, and stronger as a result of our differences. Click to watch. Others such as Budweiser, Stella Artois, and Hyundai subtly pointed to the failures of government and societal fallout from funding cuts,...
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- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a...
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- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In particular, we examine how FASB members' and SEC commissioners' length of tenure, past...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
embedded in societal norms and political realities. Palepu: Yes, Chile—just like Israel, South Africa, and South Korea—is crossing over from an emerging market to a more mature market. Learning about Chile helps us predict the future of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
fieldworkers and community members make strategic use of the cultural understandings, norms, and identities that govern family, gender, and caste relations to build new community-based networks that promote the rights of children. Yet...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
business school campus. They moved to Beijing, rounded out their management team, received venture capital investment, developed joint-venture partnerships, and set key milestones to create a full-impact product launch for their social View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers, and even computer View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
framework and focus on finding empirically testable strategies to mitigate unethical behavior. Working Papers Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence by the government...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
to investment performance. Future practices of ESG styles are driven by relevance to investment performance, bringing change in companies and concerns about data reliability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54146 February 2018 Journal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and business administration, as well as economics, sociology and political science, and to historians....
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on some parallels with View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
social venture’s revenue strategy, the researchers analyzed a sample of 584 applications to a fellowship competition for nascent social ventures sponsored by Echoing Green, a global nonprofit organization that provides seed-stage funding, leadership development, and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
example, the vast majority of men (69 percent) and women (71 percent) reported the economic recession to be their top political concern as a corporate director, as did most US (68 percent) and non-US (70 percent) respondents. Regulatory...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of actuarial science, and the impact of changes in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne