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- 23 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience
For Jo, illustration has always been a hobby. She started to illustrate more in her final year of undergrad at the University of Sydney to keep her food diary interesting. (If you follow her Instagram account she still frequently...
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- 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
received support from staff at the School’s Europe Research Center, who facilitated contacts with 13 top executives and policymakers at European businesses and institutions. When Pons teaches the case, students consider the history of climate science, how country-...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
in business and public policy thanks to the many generous fellowships she received, Kyarisiima has returned to East Africa, where instead of focusing on infrastructure she is helping to build businesses in the region. “I’m passionate...
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- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
Publications Impacto Histórico de la Globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y Empresarios (The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and Entrepreneurs) Authors: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch, eds....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
resulting in such a switch. Download the paper: http://nocke.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/user_upload/nocke/papers/EsoNockeWhite-RJE-2010.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting Authors:S.P. Kothari,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard...
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- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching, View Details
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by Deborah Blagg
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
copy the strategy without having the underlying core principles in place will always be behind the vanguard. Public accountability via end-to-end responsibility. Societal purpose and values help meet an...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
(c) accountability in implementation. Examples are drawn from the experiences of South Africa and Brazil. Several preliminary factors are identified that may enhance policy learning, while acknowledging the constraints of bounded...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
Periodical:Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the effects of mandated disclosure on the design of contracts and induced behavior in the presence of career...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
was how they have both been defined. Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management edited by Arnold M. Howitt, Herman B. Leonard, and David W. Giles (American Public Health Assn.) This...
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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
recycling waste materials from retired products. Grundfos encourages its customers (both consumer and industrial) to return old pumps; they then fully deconstruct and repurpose or recycle the pump’s constituents. Today this program is small, View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
the public equity markets for their own funds, and whether they should do the same. They are also pondering how to monetize their own stake in the firm, and whether taking the firm itself public may be a...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Even in firms that have public shareholders or corporate parents, removing the firm leader can only be done effectively with the consent of the senior stars. If the stars don't like the idea, the consequences for the CEO's successor and...
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by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
which no man trusted his fellow." "Revenge," he also writes, "was held of more account than self-preservation." The nuances of Thucydides' thoughts and the milieu of the ancient world, long inaccessible to readers of Thucydides in...
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James E. Aisner
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
Once upon a time, there were two kinds of businesses. On the one hand, there were public and privately owned companies such as those that existed in Western-style democracies, which had boards of directors and View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne