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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not compensate for the cost of exercising discretion in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
what they should decide. Paper: http://hbr.org/2012/12/how-much-is-sweat-equity-worth/ar/1 When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams Authors:Polzer, Jeff, and Lisa Kwan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
for peace, justice, and tolerable taxes. This paper defines capitalism as a system of indirect governance for economic relationships, where all markets exist within institutional frameworks that are provided by political authorities, i.e., governments. View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
other forms of competition in strategy and organizations. Next, we organize and review the findings of three ostensibly separate theoretical perspectives that have arisen from game theory, competitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
provider" offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage, and asset management services to clients in the infrastructure sector. With nearly 50% of its employees...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from labor markets for doctors and new economists, to kidney exchange,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
in which FDI flows reflect, in part, the use of relatively low-cost capital available to overvalued parents in the source country. On the Co-Evolution of Knowing and Doing: A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
board and executive management team are in clear agreement on goals, strategy, and actions. Always involved in rapidly changing environments, View Details
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by Staff
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
education nonprofit wants nothing less than to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. (8,230 visits) How to Be a Digital Platform Leader The most valuable companies in the world have one...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
organizations are rarely spontaneous. The conversation has to allow employees to be honest without risking their jobs. In most of the companies we've studied, managers talked about View Details
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
our discussions and suggests directions for research to investigate its validity. Publisher's link: http://pps.sagepub.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/10/1/3.full.pdf+html February 2015 Antitrust Bulletin The Influence of Strategic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
talented people and the knowledge they possess. In today's economy, that is the constraining—and therefore strategic—resource. The implications for top management are profound. First, human-resources issues...
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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
around the strategic direction that the company is taking would require giving different types of information to board members and having different discussions in board meetings, but the effort to revamp the...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
In 2000, The Entrepreneurial Manager was introduced into the required first-year MBA curriculum. The course—and its presence in the first year—marked an important milestone...
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by Staff
- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in...
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Martha Lagace