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- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
help in various studies of corruption. The private sector has not always been keen to "rock the boat," she said, adding that the OECD has adopted a convention that makes it a criminal offense for a corporation to bribe a public...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
one’s corporate ecosystem, etc.) is essential to establishing and growing businesses in African markets. Many of the failed entry attempts we discussed were led by organizations who either failed to identify suitable local partners or...
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- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
staff's ethnic makeup, the research team had to look at other related factors. For starters, Cohen, Malloy, and Gurun had access to ethnicity data of US metropolitan areas (from the Census Bureau and the American Communities Project at Brown University). They also were...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, even basic haircare. Orphaned at age 8, married...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
create a viable business out of any toughtech idea. In a way, that was a catalyst for me to think about what was going on outside the walls of the corporate environment I occupied. Coming from the oil and gas space, it's easy to get...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Despite common View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
Focuses on Furman Selz's acquisition by Xerox in 1987; its return to a private company in 1993; and a second acquisition, by ING, in 1997. In particular, provides the opportunity to evaluate five major corporate transitions: the initial...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
In 1998, Internet advertising revenue passed the $1 billion mark, more than double its 1997 level. Indeed, although the Internet entered the media fray barely four years ago, its revenues from national advertisers already surpass those of...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. Drugs approved in December are associated with more adverse effects New research reveals that drug approvals surge in the US in December, at month-ends, and before respective major View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
was then — stranded at the B-School with food running low. The days crawl and the years fly! Here we are 25 years later with a lot of road behind us and more road ahead of us than any other generation has ever had. This year the corporate...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
analysis. Then, you'll learn how to apply these tools in a variety of decision contexts, including securities analysis, credit analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, mergers and acquisitions analysis, and governance and...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Khanna led a session titled "Entrepreneurship and the Asian Family Enterprise," which brought together three scions of top family corporations in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Ronnie Chan, chairman of the successful Hong Kong...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
suggests that it could grow even more quickly—that it could join the small number of nations achieving annual double-digit increases in real GDP. Liberia, Werker says, "could be the perfect storm for very fast growth." The other...
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by Kim Girard
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
as the “public company director of the year,” by the National Association of Corporate Directors. I was the first academic to be fortunate enough to receive the award. And, again, the credit for that doesn't...
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