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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
counterparts in sectors that were hardest hit by the subsequent crisis. We present a model where higher turbulence benefits decentralized firms because the value of local information and urgent action increases. Since turbulence rises in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as interconnected portfolios of assets, liabilities, and guarantees—some explicit and others implicit. Traditional approaches have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector and ensuring competence in that vital sector;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
important state-run companies, such as oil and telecom firms, has remained steady. Moreover, while private companies may work well in countries with well-developed capital markets, countries without a robust sector for private investment... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Crisis By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sectors that are booming. However, as markets in different countries have increasingly moved in tandem or correlated, from 50 or 60 percent in the 1990s to more than 90 percent after the financial crisis of 2008, that strategy has seemed... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
adherence and non-adherence, thereby avoiding the complete abandonment of the current system. Herding, Social Preferences and (Non-)Conformity Authors:Luca Corazzini and Ben Greiner Periodical:Economics Letters (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
Chinese exceptionalism? This concept dovetails with the idea that China must change its development model in order to gain long-term economic and social stability. Economists have been saying this for a long time and the Chinese... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
after generation, it renews the springs of high purpose. ” What does that mean? When revolution rocked Egypt, HBS alumni immediately began to think about how business might contribute to a new social order; when nature wreaked havoc in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives to innovate and that private... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
hire in cohorts are more likely to have strong organizational career imprints. These two factors socially reinforce the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people pick up; they enhance the commonality among... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
the same type of work he had done at New Orleans & Company, an economic development corporation, the summer between his two years at HBS. Bagala was able to take that summer job because of the Social Enterprise Fellowship he received from... View Details
Keywords: April White
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative 31 MAR–01 APR 2016 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Aida Hurtado Aída Hurtado, a View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1
that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
multiple identities into five different theoretical perspectives: social psychological, microsociological, psychodynamic and developmental, critical, and intersectional. I then propose a way to take research on multiple identities forward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne