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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
and CEO at Victors & Spoils, former Chief Innovation Officer at Havas ShowHide Details Concepts Inertia Overcoming Inertia Personal Case Project Featured Exercises Brainstorm how to explore and exploit ideas simultaneously to balance...
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- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or expansion periods but flattens or inverts during economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their "risk balance sheet," argues Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton. In a provocative...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
financial institutions.) Finally, prepare a long-term rehabilitation plan. For the country’s financial system, this means a new regulatory structure. “It, for sure, will be reregulated because the government had to be so deeply involved in the rescue,” said Light. “And...
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review...
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- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
the preference list they will submit to the mechanism). We focus in this paper on better-reply dynamics. To this end, we first provide a characterization of better-replies and a comprehensive description of the dominance relation between strategies. Better-replies are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
month. So we've got a long way to go. And we need to get securitization going because that's what drives loan volume. Q: Why has loan securitization been slow to recover? A: We had a terrible system of securitization where everything was off View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée Abstract—This paper investigates the rationale for issuing complex securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
environment in which employees are constantly motivated and can effectively balance their commitment to the firm and to the client, as well as to themselves. EE: What are the factors that make professional service firms successful?...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
buying-patterns should set off alarms. Why hasn't this issue received more attention? In this country, we've had an implicit cost-benefit analysis in the backs of our minds for many decades that the movement of other people's money, tax-evading money in particular, is...
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- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In particular, supportive incumbent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
creativity in organizations. Address and answer the questions: can creativity scale? Can creativity be consistently achieved and maintained in organizations? What organizational structural features are conducive to creativity? Encourage...
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
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Making Markets - Course Catalog
will examine the design, launch, and management of marketplaces and marketplace platforms. Core lessons include: The Structure and Purposes of Markets: Markets create value by enabling parties to execute mutually beneficial transactions -...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
requires careful structuring of the transaction, cautious pricing of the shares, and wide diversification of the pockets of demand by the underwriters. These elements explain the concurrent convertible preferred stock offering, the...
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- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation....
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Sean Silverthorne