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  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Bill Doyle MBA ‘92, Harvard University; S.B., Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Bill is the Executive Chairman of Novocure Ltd., a commercial stage oncology company pioneering Tumor Treating Fields therapy for solid tumor cancers and... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

institutions for co-investing. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2159229   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 712-459 Netflix: Competitive Dynamics in the Consumer Video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine markets (i.e., the variable time lag... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

higher for those in STEM occupations compared to younger workers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2354963   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-071 Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

stimulate private-sector demand for similar products and the supply of complementary inputs. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

as of June 30, 2024, compared with $5.1 billion at the end of the prior year. Total cash received from gifts in fiscal 2024—including new endowment gifts and gifts for capital construction projects, payments on prior years’ pledges, and... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the redistricting process to be politically neutral for the most part, though a few politicians who were advisory members... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

credentializing strategies (Power, 1992); they mobilized and drew on different cultural resources to construct the reliability of their techniques and to discredit and "minoritize" the others. This credibility contest was won by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to assess the validity of this prediction: higher tariffs should lead to higher prices and therefore to more integration. We construct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

investment in a nonprofit was handled strategically it would yield a greater impact for the people served. In an organization with compelling leadership, vision, and evidence of outcomes that were making a material difference in the lives... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

Park has two parts. The first discusses the geological and social history of the site, focusing mainly on the park’s construction in the late 1850s and 1860s. The second part has essays on the 200-plus tree species and varieties. This is... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

up the next morning and asked, ‘What can we do to help?’ This is a wartime environment, and businesses need to step forward however they can,” said Harl. Originally planning to make and sell units at cost, a shield producer in Maine offered to donate View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

footnotes. Our study is motivated by standard-setting interest in performance reporting and financial statement presentation, as well as prior research investigating managers' presentation choices in other contexts. Using different View Details