Economic Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think it's Silicon Valley. The... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the... View Details

July 2024
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Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
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Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of individuals' experiences or business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Culliton, James W., “Writing Business Cases,” in McNair, Malcolm P., ed. , The Case Method at the Harvard Business School: papers by present and past members of the faculty and staff . Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1954. Culliton, James W., Handbook on Case Writing . Makati,... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

Trust board and acts as chair of the organization’s clinical expansion, a part of its capital campaign. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is another beneficiary of her management expertise; in addition to sitting on the board of the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

international guidelines on issues such as maintaining biodiversity, conserving forests, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "People left the conference feeling enthusiastic and confident," says Fri. "Unfortunately, nagging economic... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

and Galanz, which has brought microwave ovens to millions of Chinese consumers previously considered too poor to buy such an appliance. What’s more, the essentials of development can be “pulled in” by market-creating innovators—and over time, governments and financial... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

high-level discussion that influences public discourse. Which is Singer’s goal, as a rundown of his projects clearly shows: Spotlight dramatized what can happen when society defers to institutional power—and the massive upheaval that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

08 Jul 2014
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way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

measures of constraints. These findings imply a high degree of market segmentation and suggest that frictions within specialized financial institutions prevent capital from flowing into the market at shorter horizons. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

Institute estimating that autonomous vehicles will exert a global economic impact ranging from $200 billion to $1.2 trillion by 2025, there ought to be plenty of new players on the horizon. Moreover,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

institutions - like the Bulletin itself - are enduring outgrowths of its solid foundation. Women in the Bulletin While the first women in the Bulletin sold cigarettes in colorfully drawn advertisements in the 1930s, an occasional article... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

include the World Economic Forum, IDEO, airlines, and many government and border operations. SEPTEMBER 18 Sara Vicente Barreto (MBA 2009) is a corporate strategist whose blog, “Make Space for Growth,” offers insights on personal and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

responsibility to put the patient at the center of care," explains Dr. Thomas Feeley, head of MD Anderson's Institute for Cancer Care Innovation. That approach fit well with Porter's research on value-based health care, in which care is... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

traces the consequences of these differences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44781 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions By: Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval... View Details