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- 21 Jun 2010
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Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been able to intimate themselves into...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
joke and saying, ‘Am I being politically correct?’ is also insulting, and someone needs to let that person know. That’s when you start to tilt the balance in the culture.” Place women in powerful positions Sexual harassment is a power...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the firm. Through a three-year case...
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Anna Secino
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about the relationships you foster within an organization. At the end of the case, the individual had not fostered his internal relationships well (not enough blue lines) and was fired from his job. At the time, I thought this was...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a framework for reform. For his efforts, the panel acknowledged his key role “in conceptualizing and drafting” significant parts of the final product. Not everyone...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
forecasters, and selecting an appropriate evaluation measure, while connecting the processes of aggregating and evaluating forecasts to decision-making. Through three important applications from the domains of meteorology, economics, and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
other needs), worsening inequality, and increasing social and political conflict. And with improving technology and intensifying global competition, they will only grow worse if America’s K-12 education results don’t substantially improve...
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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
therefore a critical issue for all young firms. Most firms start out small, and small size makes them vulnerable to failure. Large firms almost always possess sufficient slack resources that buffer them from the vagaries of their environment and have View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
know-how. A key barrier to empirical progress on this front has been a lack of direct measures of absorption. In this paper, we develop a novel measure of absorptive capacity that attempts to directly track the influence of external sources of know-how on the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Sandra J., and Matthew Preble Abstract—The article discusses an intern for the technology security company Zantech addressing her concerns about her boss in Seoul, South Korea, regarding an inappropriate suggestion on misrepresenting her...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
as Egyptian and Syrian disengagement accords with Israel following their 1973 war. Along with diverse political leaders, diplomats, and business executives, every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy—including President-elect Donald Trump...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser...
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- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
complex political environment; and 3) Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
ahead of its time. Ecomagination was an internal program dedicated to sustainability and reducing the company's environmental impact. Now it launched in 2005 and it has been, as you note, one of the most successful commercial efforts in...
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- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
Nomura's Global Growth: Picking Up Pieces of Lehman Harvard Business School Case 210-017 What issues commonly arise in international financial management? Kenichi Watanabe and Takumi Shibata, CEO and COO of Nomura Holdings Inc., one of...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
across their internal corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different institutional pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with...
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Sean Silverthorne