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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
overcome them. In doing so, I suggest that we consider these challenges in terms of internal and external pressures related to both identity and resources. Building on existing research, I then identify four pillars that seem to play a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
who have practiced on the Charles for four years." The company announced a strong board of directors and an all-star advisory board of business leaders, educators, and two former governors. It signed a letter of intent with Coca-Cola... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Publications 2006 Henry Holt (Macmillan) Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
http://www.amazon.com/One-Report-Integrated-Reporting-Sustainable/dp/0470587512/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266436753&sr=1-1 The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
management issues were not. So we took action on a series of things to move this along. There were really four prongs of the approach that we talked about. One was research. The next was course development, actually creating courses. The... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
likes to do operations like housekeeping and food and beverage. And there’s a third entity that has the brand. Companies like the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton, we say they “flag” a hotel. They don’t manage it; they “flag” it. Trump has a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which passes prevailing tests as valid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
Original Article A recent article in Harvard Business Review, “Culture Is Not the Culprit,” by Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague noted that “When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription.” The article... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
how many hectares each Akhara required. (The Juna Akhara, the biggest, has four separate quadrants.) They had to figure out how to provide on the order of 30 MVa of power to 22,000 temporary poles (provided by a bank of diesel generators... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
to social problems through market solutions, the rate of return on these deals should be at least as high as traditional early stage investments. The big winners were in the technology and health care sectors, and in another group of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian tigers [Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan] got... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
process by getting in the way of Schumpeter's "creative destruction." Read the journal: http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/74 Too Big to Live: Why We Must Stamp Out State Monopoly Capitalism Authors: Niall Ferguson Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
the only way I can look into the future is if somebody has given us a theory of causality. That allows us to say if we do this, then that will happen. So theory is of immense value to managers.” Click to watch. Following the event, six participants submitted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
question of how the government is to finance itself is of central importance. One thing we learned while working on this paper was that there appears to be a very significant money premium in the shortest maturity T-bills, those with maturities of less than View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
powerful in communicating what that company stands for—they're not just neutral mechanisms.—Thomas R. Piper In the good times, it seemed as if most of the emphasis was on diagnostic performance measures—which were often incomplete and were primarily financial—and View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
members of the collective, Hill rejects the idea that they should be chosen in order to conform to a freeform type of corporate structure, a "one big happy family" mentality. People in organizations of collective genius, she insists, need... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four audit firm, and have a higher percentage of independent directors. Controlling for these effects, we find that firms with abnormally low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
manner of Dell and Cisco. Because the majority of these transformations are ongoing, the ultimate success or failure of these undertakings is difficult to evaluate. General Motors, for example, is attempting to rehaul its business in four... View Details