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    Debora L. Spar

    Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals
    • 15 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

    Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen
    • 13 Jan 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Private Equity and Industry Performance

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen & Per Strömberg
    • May 2009
    • Article

    The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad

    By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles
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    • 16 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 16

    on these teams. As non-native English speakers attempted to counter the apprehension they felt when having to speak English, and native English speakers fought against feeling excluded and devalued, a cycle of negative emotion ensued and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 1992 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman
    The CFO of Fleetwood Enterprises is considering whether to recommend a large share repurchase to the board of directors. Fleetwood's core businesses, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles, are very sensitive to business cycles and oil prices. Following Iraq's... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital Structure; Stock Shares; Price; Crisis Management; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Iraq; Kuwait
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      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

      Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry
      • 29 Mar 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: March 29

      http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_shea_deception_chapter_2012.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2000
      • Case

      Jardines: Tapping the Asian E-Commerce Market

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Melissa Dailey and Fred Young
      "We have made significant progress in reshaping the group in the current cycle of change," announced the homepage of Jardine Matheson & Co.'s web site. Percy Weatherall, newly appointed managing director of the company, knew all too well about change. In his previous... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decisions; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption
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      • 03 Mar 2009
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      First Look: March 3, 2009

      Nadja Fidelia aligned the Partnership Solutions Groups' activities with Lehman Brothers' "one-firm" strategy in ways that created economic value for the firm. Delves into the challenges of developing this business in an industry... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 09 Jan 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

      economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to... View Details
      Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
      • Research Summary

      Lean Startup Management Practices

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

      Many information technology startups have embraced "lean startup" management practices. Lean startups confront high levels of uncertainty about both customer problems and product solutions: the strength of demand for new... View Details

      • February 2011
      • Background Note

      GUIDESlines: Benchmark Values for the GUIDES Framework

      By: Matthew C. Weinzierl, Jacob Kuipers and Jonathan Schlefer
      GUIDESlines provides benchmark values of the key economic indicators identified in the GUIDES framework for both developed countries (the OECD) and fast-growing emerging markets (the BRINCS countries). View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Framework; Business and Government Relations
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

      By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
      We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption
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        Trevor Fetter

        Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He teaches two MBA required courses: Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and Financial Reporting and Control and a Short Intensive Program for MBA students called The Life and Role of... View Details

        • 17 Jul 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: July 17, 2007

        Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
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        Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

        By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn
        In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting... View Details
        Keywords: Hardware; Country; Business Cycles; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Growth; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Europe
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        • 23 Aug 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Waves in Ship Prices and Investment

        Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Samuel Hanson
        • 22 Sep 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

        professors (the most likely group to have strong job stability), PhDs/postdoctoral students (the least stable), and founders who had previously been employed at larger firms, small firms, and startups. In an email exchange, we asked Roche about how View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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        Publications - Faculty & Research

        Institutions ; Financial Markets ; Growth and Development ; Economic Sectors ; Financial Services Industry Citation Read Now Related Greenwood, Robin, David S. Scharfstein, and Robert Ialenti. "The Evolution of Financial Services in the... View Details