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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon...
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- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
political activism in more direct ways, as well. "We're actually one of the most powerful citizen-action groups in the nation," she says. In 1999, Working Assets launched a progressive talk-radio station in Boulder, Colorado, which is...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
courtroom at the same time.” Women were just beginning to gain momentum in the professional world when Snyder enrolled at Case Western Reserve University law school. There, her androgynous first name and stellar academic record led to an...
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- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
role of economic, geographic, and demographic factors, I find that poorer areas have significantly higher levels of conflict intensity. The paper reviews the various approaches taken by governments to deal with conflict, contrasting security-based approaches with View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
female chairs will reach parity in 2073. Although recent trends are encouraging, overall progress toward boards that represent the population is slow, hindered by a slew of factors. These include the not-so-robust pipeline of new candidates; View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Reserve University, Duke University, Peking University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt Law School and Virginia Commonwealth University, who led the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
(government-run) system; or various elements borrowed from all of these. President Obama has said he wants to move gradually, beginning by insuring all children, and has expressed reservations about aspects of the Massachusetts model,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological...
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content; 6. Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation; 7. Content related to partisan political activities; and 8. Content that contains intentionally inaccurate information or that is posted with the intent of misleading others....
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
hazard. Our results have broad implications for regulation, financial auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Read the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640638 The International Politics of IFRS...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
shocks. I show that the risk of misvaluation induces public firms to raise capital and accumulate cash reserves when they perceive their equity to be overvalued, resulting in greater demand for precautionary cash holdings. Download...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
exclude it from the annual proxy statement. The SEC, however, reserves the right to deny the request—in which case the proposal is included in the statement and put forth for a vote after all. Source: What Else Do Shareholders Want?...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
sciences. He has also worked at Huron Consulting Group and Cured, a health tech startup. Hunter has a BA in political science from DePauw University and an MBA from HBS. Matt Ross (MBA 2022) is the co-founder and CEO of Trove Health,...
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areas of study or on particular topics (each, a “Program”). Harvard Business School Online reserves the right to cancel, interrupt or reschedule any Program or modify its content as well as the point value or weight of any assignment,...
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- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
2018 Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics Firms in Firmament: Hydrocarbons and the Circulation of Power By: Abdelal, Rawi Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
really a very young country. How we understand modern China is rooted in our understanding of history. Thus, the authors examine several myths surrounding important historical themes, including unity, economic and political isolation, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations have been successful in garnering donations of hardware and equipment when needed, but do not have vast reserves to support legal expenses, travel, or conferences. However, since these foundations are primarily electronically...
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by Mallory Stark