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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio...
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by George Serafeim
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
code law countries, consistent with investors' concerns over enforcement of IFRS in those countries. Finally, we find a positive reaction to IFRS adoption events for firms with high-quality pre-adoption...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
running the market research firm Geosegment Systems Corporation, which he founded in 1991. In addition to its advocacy before the NRC, Popik’s group has become a regular at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the obscure...
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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
forthcoming Stanford University Press Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma By: O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael Tushman Abstract—In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed—think of Blockbuster,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law...
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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company....
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
(September-October 2011) Abstract For many decades the cornerstone of corporate reporting has been financial information that is presented in a company's annual, semi-annual, and quarterly reports. These comprehensive financial reports-required by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led since earning his MBA, Klarman...
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- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along with many others, I had assumed...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a support system from professional...
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- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
ineffective enforcement of intellectual property laws that may stifle China's transition from a manufacturing to a higher-value-added knowledge-based economy. Greg Durst cites both "Western gullibility" in overestimating the...
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by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
was a member of the firm's executive committee. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation on Wall Street, Rose explained. Deregulation led to intense competitive pressures to which firms responded by...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix...
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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Law of Business Organization Authors:William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman, and Guhan Subramanian Publication:2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2007 Abstract In Commentary and Cases on the Law of Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-128.pdf PublicationsExtreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming)...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
act. New practice area founders need to engage in appropriate legitimacy-mobilizing efforts in order to sustain diversification efforts. Our analysis of 46 cases of new practice area creation attempts in consulting and law View Details
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Martha Lagace