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  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

bias. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 Digital Dark Matter and the Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Cynthia Carroll

mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Letters to the Editor

counsel in guiding this then-young MBA student in both these directions—six entrepreneurial start-ups and then a seventh one that is green to boot! The seventh, GreenEarth Cleaning, owns 140 patents in 42 countries View Details
Keywords: HBS Show; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal and Laundry Services
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

proposals on material versus immaterial issues affect firms’ subsequent ESG performance and market valuation. We find that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample are filed on immaterial issues. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

connections between the breakthrough initiatives and the conventional operation, bringing together all employees in a common cause and preventing organizational separation from turning into organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

transition? Would these strategic decisions be sufficient to steer SOHO China through new economic hurdles? Is 3Q enough to buoy SOHO’s performance and bring it into the next... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run stock market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life

In his new book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies, Professor Ranjay Gulati makes the case that it is indeed possible to serve two masters—profit View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success. To combat this impasse, we suggest a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

income varies according to how well they perform. In finance, performance is measured in money. Make more money, get more money. The findings indicate that if Europe wants its most talented bankers to stay View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

HKS toolkit After my first year in the joint degree program at HKS (MPA/ID Program) with leading development economists such as Professors Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik, I developed the analytical and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A lifelong mission to save the oceans

a big toe in the water because the river was, at that time, a chemical and organic cesspool,” he remembers. Today, Merkl is helping to shift environmental thinking with initiatives that balance conservation... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

macroeconomic view of world regions so that participants have a clear sense of how various economic and sociopolitical factors will affect their businesses. The heart of the program, however, centers on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

exploitation tends to drive out exploration, rendering organizations rigid and vulnerable to environmental change. Drawing on the Carnegie School, we propose a model where perturbation moderates the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 1987
  • Chapter

Evaluating Foreign Investment with Special Reference to Southeast Asia

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Performance Evaluation; Developing Countries and Economies; Asia
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  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

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