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- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
be the best decision to invest in a company with a manager who doesn’t have a preference for minimizing them as much,” he says. Many MBA students come to HBS with backgrounds in private equity, investment...
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by Roberta Holland
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
chapters so that students are prepared for the rewards and challenges they will face in the professional cost accounting world of today and tomorrow. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53893 forthcoming...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
and skills that the American economy needs.” (Higgins) “ provided it is spent on the areas where there is the greatest performance gap ” (Lewisman). Samuel Reich added that, “ it should (be) limited (to) schools where standard tests indicate the bulk of the View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-065 Responsibilities to Society This module note for students outlines an approach to help managers deliver on their responsibilities in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
use it. In the paper, Luca, Edward L. Glaeser and Scott Duke Kominers (PhDBE 2011) of Harvard University, and PhD student Nikhil Naik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, cite three trends that make cities particularly...
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- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other countries. We survey past attempts at governance innovation, from private governance in India's industrial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
sectors," he said. Cases such as Shetty's inspire him in that regard, and in the coming year he would like to collaborate on research in the healthcare sector in India with doctoral students and also with David Bloom, a professor of...
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- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
was considering whether to buy natural gas properties from Dominion Resources. The question is whether the acquisition fits the corporate strategy. In exploring the questions, students will have the chance to consider what is in fact a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Kerr, Ann Cullen, and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Note 811-095 This note provides students with an approach to using online databases to analyze companies, industries, and markets, including country markets. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407089 Kristen's Cookie Co. (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-037 The student is starting his or her own business, baking make-to-order cookies. Basic times of...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24
institutions of our capitalist system, which, if ignored, can undermine the legitimacy of the system. I provide some ideas on how to fix the problem. Working Papers Curbing Adult Student Attrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Alexander, and Amitabh Chandra Abstract—Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that...
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- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
teaching can help faculty resolve a basic dilemma of academia: promotion is often based upon our published research, and we find that responsibilities to teach detract from the mandate to publish. When approached properly, case studies can transform teaching into...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
establishments in sparse regions, but both groups improve similarly in dense regions, suggesting that density mitigates the power of large establishments to resist institutional pressures. Finally, privately held firms' establishments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
the private holder cap, and mini-public offerings. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313091-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-405 Amul Dairy In 2013, Rahul Kumar, the managing director of Amul dairy, India's leading dairy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
and strategy, including direct and indirect investments, fund manager selection, total returns, sourcing and due diligence of direct investments, and other aspects. The case explores a specific investment decision in depth. In May 2017, Pritzker Simmons and BHI...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
privately held) or for shareholders (if it's public). The interests of the customers, the firm, and the owners become aligned by the customer actually paying for the product. In the nonprofit sector you rarely have this kind of alignment...
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by Julia Hanna