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Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the launch of countless corporate social responsibility initiatives in recent decades. Now more than ever—in the midst of a global economic crisis that has strained the capacity of governments and NGOs to address complex societal challenges—it is time to restore View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
with governments and companies, and public and legal advocacy for stronger climate and other environmental practices and policies. Fred joined us to talk about MethaneSAT, EDF’s new satellite that was recently launched to monitor...
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
Periodical:Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the effects of mandated disclosure on the design of contracts and induced behavior in the presence of career concerns. We analyze the impact of...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism” are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007
alternative mechanisms by which private information about firms' R&D activities can be revealed to investors. I investigate the degree to which both mechanisms lead to the public revelation of the private information implicit in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009
premia determined mainly by the product of risk aversion and the nominal-real covariance. The concavity of the yield curve—the level of intermediate-term bond yields, relative to the average of short- and long-term bond yields—is a good...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2024
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Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
short run and perseverance is rewarded.” Returns and attractive exits are higher for startups formed during these periods in history. Overall, I emphasize that students need to be patient. Good jobs are out there to be had. All it takes...
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by Rachel Layne
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
capabilities. We conclude that incumbent firms have an advantage in innovating in this setting. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54282 The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
this, let me know. It’s important to me that we do a good job.” I had little experience as a writer, absolutely no understanding of the Nobel Committee, and limited knowledge of the economics landscape with which to provide context for...
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- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews By: Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal Abstract—This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the social institution? How can good leadership strengthen morale as well as the economic side of the organization in times of uncertainty? A: We interviewed the CEOs before the financial meltdown, so I cannot say how these CEOs have...
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by Martha Lagace
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By: Gary P. Pisano
Thought Leader: Gary Pisano
by Amy Bernstein, strategy+business, Summer 2007
A leading student of the biotech business describes the problems holding the industry back, and how it can overcome... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough alternative transactions to arrive at good ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2022
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Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
imagine growth platforms. Build partnerships. No organization can go it alone. The COVID-19 pandemic reminds leaders of how organizational success depends on the resiliency of their ecosystems—a public sector able to provide basic...
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
System By: David S. Scharfstein JAN 2018 How has the growth in public and private pension systems affected the financial markets? In his presidential address to the American Finance Association, David Scharfstein argues that pension...
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- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
take shape in the past 20 years. In particular, the publication of Teece and Pisano (1994, Industrial and Corporate Change, 3(3), 537–556), Teece et al. (1997, Strategic Management Journal, 3, 509–533), and Eisenhardt and Martin (2000,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests. Economists use the term...
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