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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
that were presented and discussed at the colloquium. Globalization’s complexities and nuances, compared with twenty years ago, were analyzed and debated with a rigor and enthusiasm that doubtless would have pleased Ted Levitt immensely....
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage industry 2,406 alumni list...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of Managerial View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Fall 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Global Talent Flows By: Kerr, William R., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Çağlar Özden Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man behind the story and the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
general management. It was a school that was associated with developing leaders who would go out and run large, complex enterprises or build new entrepreneurial ventures. It was about educating the kind of people whom I always had...
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Roger Thompson
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
award program decreased plant productivity by 1.4%, and that positive effects from awards are accompanied by more complex employee responses that limit program effectiveness. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2215922 Do Display...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
Chevy Volt, the first plug-in hybrid, has also demonstrated the potential for innovating, rather than just playing catch-up to everyone else. It is no coincidence that the IPO is positioned around the launch of the Volt to maximize awareness of the changing view of the...
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
full lockdown has significant economic consequences, as most commercial activity comes to a halt. Also, in democratic societies, a complete lockdown is difficult and likely impossible to enforce. This is why the use of face masks becomes...
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- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
other projects. Third, studying projects requires significant up-front investment to understand the institutional details. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," moral hazard becomes a real danger. This combination of private information, few...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
building of closer relationships among those of you who - like our faculty - come from many diverse countries. The issues facing Asia today are too big and complex for any single person, university faculty, or company to comprehend fully....
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Alejandro Reyes
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard...
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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
accomplish something big together. Silverthorne: Why does group culture seem to matter so much when we thought economic interests dominate everything? Kanter: Modern bureaucratic life was built on the myth that people could come to work...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
be a good critic unless you understand. So the first thing is they could learn about the complexities of the actual business world, and its human aspects. Another thing that religious communities have not grappled with as well are the...
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by Martha Lagace