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  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

  Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Swiss Re, which predicts that even if some mitigating actions are taken, global GDP will shrink by 14 percent by 2050 by 18 percent if no actions are taken. Okay, the sky may... View Details
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

will adopt the change. By contrast, strong ties to potentially influential organization members who disapprove of a change outright (resistors) are an effective means of affective cooptation only when a change diverges little from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

imprinting. This theory provides a distinct lens for organizational research that takes history seriously. Rituals Alleviate Grieving for Loved Ones, Lovers, and Lotteries Authors:Norton, Michael I., and F. Gino Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School

Black Presidents' Roundtable Association. He is the president and founder of the Scientific and Commercial Systems Corporation, which he established in 1983. C. Patricia 'Pat' Alsup MBA 1974 Pat Alsup currently serves as US ambassador to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

The following article is the seventh in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Professor Michael C. Jensen has a simple explanation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

paper: http://www.whatworksforamerica.org/ideas/inflection-point-new-vision-new-strategy-new-organization/ Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices Authors:Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011
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Kidney Paired Donation

By: C. Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when the first paired donation transplant was performed in the U.S. In the past decade, KPD has become the fastest growing source of transplantable kidneys, overcoming the barrier faced... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Success; Problems and Challenges; Programs; System; United States
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  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

and Online Shopping By: Liaukonyte, Jura, Thales Teixeira, and Kenneth C. Wilbur Abstract—Media multitasking competes with television advertising for consumers' attention, but it also may facilitate immediate and measurable response to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

advertising market—one that suffers quite a different set of problems. Display advertising systems place ads-typically, rectangular "banners"—on the majority of popular web sites. Though display ads are widespread, they are also troubled—ignored View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
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Calpine Corporation: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
In early 1999, Calpine Corp.'s CEO Pete Cartwright adopted an aggressive growth strategy with the goal of increasing the company's aggregate generating capacity from approximately 3,000 to 15,000 megawatts (MW) by 2004. He believed there was a fleeting opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Cost of Capital; Project Finance; Adaptation; Profit; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Energy Industry; United States
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  • August 2016
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The Activities of Buy-Side Analysts and the Determinants of Their Stock Recommendations

By: Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement and Nathan Y. Sharp
We survey 344 buy-side analysts from 181 investment firms and conduct 16 detailed follow-up interviews to gain insights into the activities of buy-side analysts, including the determinants of their compensation, the inputs to their stock recommendations, their beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Stocks; Financial Services Industry
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  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

negotiator who wants to be fair from the start ensure that his or her counterpart will be reasonable as well? The authors propose the final-offer arbitration challenge, which leverages an approach first applied in labor negotiations in the 1960s. You can employ this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Aug 2019
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Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

So, they took their money and invested it in this Broadway show that would air before the game. The premise that was that Michael C. Hall is this famous actor who has been approached to do a commercial for... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55504 forthcoming Theoretical Economics Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

Behavior & Organization What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews By: Dobrescu, Loretti I., Michael Luca, and Alberto Motta Abstract—This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra

Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • December 2009 (Revised May 2012)
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Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan

By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and C. Jason Wang
Taiwan's Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center has developed an integrated, team-based care delivery model for breast cancer care that is being expanded to other cancer types in 2009. A decade earlier, President and CEO Dr. Andrew Huang and the Center had worked... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Quality; Integration; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Taiwan
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  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne