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- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- News
See Us Unite for Change
Courtesy Sheila Lirio Marcelo In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month, MTV’s Entertainment brands are streaming a global television special, “See Us Unite for Change,” on May 21. Hosted by comedian Ken Jeong, the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant Power cofounder Ron Smith (MBA 1979) stands aside the East River in New York, where his company launched the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States. It’s a muggy July... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
and policy. I think the GI Bill was a very powerful thing and I know I wanted to use all three years of that. And so I really wanted a place that... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Taleb, 2007; Power, 2009). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management in banking is as inevitable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
Tigers, elephants, rabbits, and monkeys—even dragons—all play a part in Harvard Business School professor Rohit Deshpandé's search for success factors among high-performing Asian firms. But in the end, it's the tigers View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
political risk influences the financing and operational decisions of U.S. multinational firms both at the subsidiary and firm-wide level. Several interesting results are... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
of principles for responsible investment, a standard that falls well short of integrating ESG considerations into their investment decisions. Myth Number 3: Companies cannot influence the kind of shareholders that buy their shares, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
about candidates before they start predicts how they'll do once they're hired." Three that he cites in a recent article in The New Yorker are pro football quarterbacks, high-performing financial advisors, and teachers. Learning is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
illneses take a financial and emotional toll on businesses operating in Africa. "This is not just a disease we're talking about. This is a disease that has the power to destroy economies," said... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
I realized this was something I was passionate about and that, up until then, I had been influenced by other people’s expectations.” This insight led to a decades-long interest in global business for Barry,... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
involved in social enterprise at HBS, and it has strongly influenced how I’m looking at different post-MBA options. From choices about work-life tradeoffs, to reading habits, to views on what makes a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
realized that its activities had contributed to unnecessary death and destruction. I saw firsthand the role and power of business and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Redefining Global Strategy by Pankaj Ghemawat (HBS Press) Why do so many global strategies fail despite companies’ powerful brands and border-crossing advantages? In this “semiglobalized” world,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
site for paper: http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol1/iss3/art3/ Identity Negotiation Processes Amidst Diversity: Understanding the Influence of Social Identity and Status Differences Authors:Jeffrey T. Polzer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
demonstrates the mutual interconnectivity among the three key facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. The authors highlight both the manner in which strategy informs leadership View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
chairman of Synthes, a $2.3 billion global medical device company that focuses on surgical implants and tools for fixing broken bones. “My greatest achievement has been to influence young people in a... View Details