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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
to death.” Then in October 2000 came euphoria: Milosevic had fallen. Old friends in Belgrade, anti-Milosevic activists familiar with Djelic's talents and experience, pleaded for him to return and help rebuild. “How could I stay and lead my bourgeois lifestyle when all... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 16, 2007
Working Papers"Don'ts" And "Do's": Insights from Experience In Mitigating Risks Of Western Investors In Post-Communist Countries Authors:Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos and Paul R. Lawrence Abstract No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks. Managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu deftly chronicle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
Fons is about to propose a strategy to Kroll to launch KBRA. Along with Fons, an economist specializing in credit risk and rating agency issues, students are asked to consider several key questions: Should KBRA enter this business, which... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
Summing Up Neuro economics is here to stay, according to a majority of those responding to this month's column. Its promises are too great to ignore. But it may be too early to know whether the promises will be realized in practice. And... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Such motives spring from the humanitarian values possessed by the organizations or individuals involved. Utilitarian motives, on the other hand, cater to the partners' organizational needs, focusing on issues like risk management or the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
studies in America, is used to overcoming challenges. “When we founded the company, the economy was contracting and no one wanted to take any risks. As it returned to some semblance of normal, people started feeling better about risks and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
cause serious adverse effects, including more hospitalizations, life-threatening incidents, and deaths. The findings come at a time when regulatory agencies around the world are considering end-of-the-year emergency applications for COVID-19 vaccines developed with... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
the business environment cause economic shifts that destabilize industries, companies, and even countries. They allow new entrants or forward-thinking established players to introduce innovations—in products, markets, or processes—that... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
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Judging | New Venture Competition
you seek to have. The team has a clear understanding of the issue it seeks to address, why the issue is important, the recipients of the product or service, economic and social drivers of the model, and feasibility of the concept.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
economic environment. The I-Net, Nolan explains, merges a firm's intranet seamlessly with the Internet, creating "fluid, permeable, and connected" enterprises that "truly reflect the speed, collaboration, and scalability of the network... View Details
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Cherian Kurien
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views of the faculty and fellow... View Details