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- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
available for these projects. JH: Naina Lal Kidwai continues to do her work at the intersection of business, government, and the environment, serving on numerous boards in addition to continuing in her role as chair of the ISC. She says View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
is progressing daily. You can't settle for the typical schedule of drug discovery and development. So forget the drug companies. We'll form our own. “Well, you can't just tell me that at nine o'clock at night and think I'm going to go to...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but cronyism has diminished, the principle of...
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Garry Emmons
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
costless redistribution of arbitrarily determined unequal outcomes and prefer justifying tax progressivity based on benefit received rather than on diminishing marginal social welfare of income. These attitudes are shown to be linked to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
component of bid-ask spreads. We empirically examine these predictions for a sample of large U.S. banks, exploiting recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value levels 1, 2, and 3, which indicate View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
hand, kept putting its knowledge and profits from every new product back into the company. From manufacturing punched-card data processors, it progressed along what I call the learning path to make the System 360 in 1964 and the System...
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by Jim Aisner
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
asteroid miner. Such visions are clearly not going to become reality in the near future. But detailed roadmaps to them are being produced, and recent progress in the required technologies has been dramatic. If such space-economy visions...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after accounting for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
individual partners' ability to IPO, achieve outsized exits, or fail, and to what extent that performance is attributable to the firm or the partner. Shedding light on the sources of performance in venture capital firms will help us make View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
that stage, and was there any value in staying back to complete the task? Which is done more out of loyalty and a sense of duty rather than necessarily the best career progression plan. I think that a life has, and I think careers have...
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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a little bit more thoughtful. So when I began, it was just a single Excel page tracking how long I was running for, and how much I was sleeping, and a couple other things related to overall wellness. And it was really just a way to have some small goals and try to...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
funds or via angel networks, have to recognize that this is a real opportunity to make money,” Dorsen says. The fund is making progress on that front. The Women’s Venture Capital Fund investors were once predominantly women. Now almost 50...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
quite new. He returned to India and ended up having a very successful career in business — first as the general manager and then as CEO of a small company, and later as the head of progressively larger companies. So my entire relationship...
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Roger Thompson
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
investors to use your product? When asked (or not), investors never lack for advice on how your product can improve. Just remember, you are in it every day, they are not. So, always weigh that advice against what your team is discovering with your customers and View Details
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by Julia Austin
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
practices. Now in 2016, the (B) case describes the new structure as Peiser and his team review their progress so far and determine if it is the right path forward as the team sets out to reach new expansion goals. This case allows...
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
negotiations. Initially, legitimacy appeared to derive from an expanding membership and the lowering of tariffs in progressively more categories of goods and services. More recently, legitimacy comes from institutional deepening by means...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
Lorsch: People talk about curbing the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but...
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by Garry Emmons