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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
latter to price lower and thereby increase total consumer traffic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-010.pdf Exclusivity and Control Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Abstract We analyze platform competition for...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
critically important commercially, but even more so politically. The third critical juncture, she said, is where we are right now with the information revolution, the impact of which will be particularly important in the media industry. "Media is about...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won independence from Britain. Buy the book:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
researchers and professors from HBS, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and other Harvard schools. In 1994, in about 100 days of internecine violence, some 800,000 of Rwanda’s 9 million people were murdered, 1 million were internally...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
discovered. The alliance between The Nature Conservancy and Georgia-Pacific involved a dramatic shift from a contentious to a collaborative relationship. Historically, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), an international conservation...
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by James Austin
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
PublicationsBanks as Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:New York: Routledge, 2012 Abstract This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
my application aside and asked whether I’d like to get a doctorate instead,” recalls Light. After discussions during a visit to the campus, Light agreed to enter a new doctoral program in decision and control theory, a joint program...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
functions that are strategically important. The School also works aggressively to control benefits expense through disciplined vendor selection and management. As a result of these efforts, the increases in staff FTE positions and total...
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- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all kinds of inefficiencies into the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
Minister but resigned to serve on the Peace Commission negotiating a settlement to the 1994 Zapatista peasant rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas. Enriquez-Cabot is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for International...
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- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
Development Elective, an innovative offering within the leadership curriculum of an international MBA, which gives participants the opportunity to work with a psychotherapist during the course. Our findings suggest that the interplay...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807018 Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading Harvard Business School Case 707-494 In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build its first 50 vehicles, so the...
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Amy Yee
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of the organization. Thus, to bring the resourcefulness of individuals to benefit the organization, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
in Galway, Ireland. He has publicly committed to double production from 5,000 to 10,000 units per month, but that is just the start. Next come the challenges of getting supplies from all over the world, hiring and training new employees, and finally, sorting out...
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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
Firms in the United States, Japan, and Germany tend to be managed especially well, while firms in Brazil, China, and India tend to be managed poorly. Those are among the initial findings of the World Management Survey (WMS), a huge View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Diana Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and John Ruggie, Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. HIV and AIDS devastate...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market observes a performance measure that helps revise its beliefs...
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