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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. Approaching the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
MacIver, and Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World, with Colin B. Carter. (Read an excerpt from The Future of Boards.) Julia Hanna: You've been studying board dynamics since the 1980s. What is a trend... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract—We View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
managers in whom they can have some degree of confidence? Judging from the large proportion of those accused of wrongdoing as part of the "Enron syndrome" who possess MBAs from leading business schools, this is a valid question.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
those who view immigrants as a threat to national identity and local culture. Cultural concerns are often amplified by the idea that immigrants are unwilling or unable to assimilate. But has anything happened to validate these concerns?... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Voice of Experience A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid criticism in the past, but things are really changing.” The speaker is... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
databases are used worldwide to study entry and firm dynamics, but payroll information does not contain ownership structures. As such, they followed a practice used in other settings to focus on the three highest paid employees in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
founded, the notion of social enterprise was still relatively new to the lexicon, and HBS was clearly one of the pioneering actors in this broader movement to advance the study and the practice of social enterprise and in inspiring other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
an astronaut. After selling Stylus, he briefly indulged a long-held passion by studying jazz piano, before settling into a spectacularly successful career as an entrepreneur, building and selling three tech companies — Direct Hit, Xfire,... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
ongoing need for shark conservation and management, prevailing negative sentiments marginalize these animals and legitimize permissive exploitation. These negative attitudes arise from an instinctive yet exaggerated fear, which is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
insights into foreign policy, statecraft, and world order have been widely discussed. Yet surprisingly, until this book, his impressive achievements as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined in depth, no serious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
developments are important. Our study provides the first serious evidence that file sharing cannot explain the decline in music sales in the last couple of years. In addition, in the last two quarters, music sales increased while file... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case studies on... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
that, field of study is the single-strongest predictor of whether someone would be in a college level job or not. The second-strongest predictor was whether or not someone completed at least one internship. And for those individuals that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
second election or, in rare cases, require the company to negotiate with the union as sole bargaining agent for the employees. Most companies will deny a union’s request to represent its employees on the basis of signed authorization cards, questioning their View Details
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
an exciting technology and form a company in that space. I pivoted about midway through the fellowship, my initial idea was solar geoengineering. The original idea was studying how to scatter aerosols into the upper atmosphere of the... View Details