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- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Gyaana. Professor Allen Grossman, our advisor for the field study and the business plan, has been instrumental in shaping our ideas and structuring our thoughts. Q: What are... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
offering or withholding capital, banks rival governments in their power to shape business behavior across various industries. Cynics wondering if this is just window-dressing should consider the case of... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
equilibrium, belief in the "American dream" is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
Management Series. Oxford University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the Book: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199552863.do Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
sharper increases in labor productivity. The ethnic transfer mechanism is especially strong in high-tech industries and among Chinese economies. The findings suggest channels for transferring codified and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Through contemporary examples from a variety of industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
with better defining the board's role is also linked to their views on board involvement in shaping company strategy. Both questions turn on another matter: how well the board... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
and succeed beyond imagination. It is easy to think that such imposing and rare figures shape history through the power of their leadership, and only their leadership. But that was never View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
paths. He met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss professionalization and how business schools shape—and have been shaped by—societal forces and values. Martha Lagace: What led you into this analysis? Rakesh Khurana: Since I was a... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
descriptive study of these processes in an emerging category-modern Indian art. Discourse analysis revealed how market actors shaped the construction of meaning in the new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
streams. The firm's senior leadership team, and especially R&D leadership, plays a central role in shaping a firm's ability to both exploit existing capabilities and explore new technological domains.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors whose signals reduce uncertainty in the agency's pursuit of legitimacy. Focusing empirically on View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
legendary Mahatma Gandhi. Provides the opportunity to consider the impact of colonialism on shaping Indian entrepreneurship and the role of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics, in particular, gender and migration status, shapes View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help discipline a model in which the trade finance mode is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne