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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
But that hasn't happened. Why? To a large extent it is because of the inability of firms to obtain financing. All sources of financing collapsed in the country. With bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans skyrocketing from 5 percent to 33 percent from 2007 to...
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by George Serafeim
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
student self-directed learning model was instituted to build knowledge and skills graduates needed to be successful in college. The case study describes the history of Summit and its evolution to this new learning model. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
software in private fixed investment in the United States. We argue that these findings point to a large potential undercounting of "digital dark matter" and related IT spillovers from university and federal funding. Download...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
turnaround of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 2002-2003 season? Was it Paul Pressler as head of Disney Sports, because he got investment funds from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then hired Bryan Murray? Was it Bryan Murray as the general...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the parent company of a 100%-owned subsidiary, Huijin, which invested solely in key state-owned financial institutions in China. Moreover, the fact that CIC was a SWF presented broader political challenges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
pricing, and that reinsurers' high costs of capital appear to play an important role. Institutional Portfolio Flows and International Investments Authors:K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai Periodical:Review of...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations. While such "institutional voids"...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
form called a Benefit Corporation; and 3) creating an investment rating system to help drive institutional investment to the emerging asset class of "impact...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
efficiencies, and by having the highly respected CEO of one of the acquired entities lead the combined U.S. organization. Meanwhile, RBS is building its B2B brand with institutional clients on Wall Street. 2. IKEA. IKEA offers a furniture...
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by John Quelch
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical specifications. We further...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
who took notice: Harvard Business School Professor Karim Lakhani. As a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1990s, he took von Hippel’s class on innovation. After reading Lakhani’s paper describing the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
They instituted an incentive scheme that gave employees a financial stake in the performance of the business. They invested in IT systems and other tools to improve the ability of frontline call-center...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
at many non-financial firms have highlighted a "low-leverage puzzle" and raised questions about the implications of cash holdings for corporate investment and economic growth. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
external compliance pressure in their domestic institutional environment, when their buyers take a cooperative approach to monitoring, and when their auditors are highly trained. We find, further, that a cooperative approach to monitoring...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
jobs must include entrepreneurs." Mills is approaching her work at the Competitiveness Project through a framework she calls a job-creation playbook, which is broken down into three categories: institutions (accelerators, economic...
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- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
said. As for the issue of human capital, Rajan noted that the majority of the populous is undereducated. "We need more education," he said. "Harvard is of course unique, but we need more institutions that emulate you."...
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by Carmen Nobel