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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
to gain much traction and proposes measures that will better protect the rights of property owners. We asked Wells to discuss his research and experiences representing host governments in such negotiations, and what international managers... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Author:Malcolm S. Salter Abstract Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and investors for an NYSE-traded firm, we investigate the impact of private meetings on investor decisions. We find that when investors meet privately with management they make more informed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
enriching," he continued. "The moments of reflection we shared by internally discussing our roots, our evolution, the place where we are and our future, all had fundamental value as well." The case protagonists were then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
independent oversight it is tough to write credible standards and subject them to internal monitoring and enforcement. A third competitive method, known as the Porter Hypothesis, after Harvard Business School professor and strategy expert... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like an internal venture capital... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
discussed in terms of strategic and non-strategic linguistic cues. Working PapersFinding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value Authors:Bertoneche, Marc L., and Cornis Van der Lugt Abstract The start of the 2000s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
prolific outpouring of twelve books as well as a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Awards for best article of the year in Harvard Business Review). In addition, he was one of the chief architects of Business, Government, and the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for over two centuries. But an... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
was nothing if not a closer. His company had to break into international software markets because the local one was virtually nonexistent. To succeed, Infosys needed to build a track record, which meant closing deals quickly. One... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the literature via comparative analysis of the potential contributions of two voluntary sustainability certification programs for artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM): Fairtrade View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 Colonial Institutions, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
for auto parts online. Finally, the company is moving its internal processes, such as billing and inventory, online. GM estimates that each of these four undertakings will save an extraordinary amount of money and enable the company to... View Details