Professor Charles Williams - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

effect, these individuals bridge the lacunae between distant groups in the company's social structure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-004.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (revised) Authors:Eric Werker, Faisal Z.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Sep 2020
News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a recently-released book, The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

treasure trove of information for the entrepreneur, and accompanying the book is an interactive website, www.midasand1000cows.com, which opens the door to more great resources. Orthopedic Emergencies edited by Melvin Makhni (MBA 2012), Eric Makhni, Eric Swart, and... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

and professors close to practice. Striking a balance between continuity and change is the challenge ahead, he noted. With that in mind, Nohria outlined the five areas for change that emerged in his wide-ranging conversations. 1.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

04 Dec 2012
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Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic Authors:Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract Using Internet traffic patterns from the Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR)... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of time flying back and forth... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 Aug 2011
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answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

than 50 interviews in 10 countries to further Professor Raffaella Sadun's examination of how resilient businesses can effectively and safely restart as COVID-19 abates. “Thanks to the ingenuity and effort of the research centers, we were... View Details

Web

Art Nature Business

the case, "The Ice King," Professor Tom Nicholas illustrates how Tudor pioneered anew industry, creating a global market for a natural resource once considered worthless, and became a key figure in the history of American... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

coats and ties. The first time he dared to speak in class, he used the Canadian pronunciation of the word “schedule” — SHED-yool — and was none-too-gently mocked by his professor and classmates. One of the students in the classroom that... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

MacCulloch Publication:In Populism and Natural Resources, edited by William Hogan and Federico Sturzenegger, manuscript Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the... View Details