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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

through which reliability and validity are enhanced for organizational learning Race at the Top: How Companies Shape the Inclusion of African Americans on Their Boards in Response to Institutional Pressures Authors:Clayton S. Rose and... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

the “Infrastructure Paradox.” Investors have an easy explanation for the paradox: a lack of bankable projects. For bankers (admittedly a broad characterization), a “bankable” project has several characteristics: a clear source of... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

LV:There’s certainly a symbolic vibe when the Dow gets to 20,000-- something to celebrate to the extent that it reflects the American economy’s long history of growth, profitability, and success. For the professional and institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a "bad" parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently instituted restructuring plan seemed likely to improve profitability, but the turnaround was in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and similar trends are not found in institutions constrained from agglomerating (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

soil that encourages entrepreneurial growth? Tax breaks? Research? Access? Protection? A: Policies that governments employ to encourage venture capital and entrepreneurial activity take two broad forms: those that ensure that the economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

  Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors' agency and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to provide students with alternative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production system that will allow farmers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

factors, we found that a plan with narrow physician and hospital networks was 16% cheaper than a plan with broad networks for both, and that narrowing the breadth of just one type of network was associated with a 6%–9% decrease in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55659 Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices By: Albuquerque, Ana, Mary Ellen Carter, and Susanna Gallani Abstract— Using detailed information on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

hiring more workers. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/oDesk.pdf May 2015 HR Certification Institute Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By: Kanter, Rosabeth M. Abstract—... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

completely aligned with managerial needs. Therefore, our goal is to draw on previous research and current practice to provide insights on managing retention and identify areas for future research. This examination leads us to advocate a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

income of American Home Products derived from healthcare and the remainder primarily from food and household products.28 By 1991, 89 percent of sales and 92 percent of profits came from its broad portfolio of healthcare products,... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat to the Windows franchise posed by Sony expanding the original PlayStation into a broad entertainment platform with the PlayStation 2. Seamus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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