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  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

opportunities to develop deep causal knowledge that can lead to greater long-term improvements. We suggest a number of concrete actions leaders can take to help themselves and their organizations avoid the success-breeds-failure trap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed stronger venture capital markets over 1990-2008, especially in high volatility sectors. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall level of worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

success, especially with respect to Iran's nuclear program. Taking John Limbert's book, Negotiating with Iran as a point of departure, this essay develops such a perspective, suggesting several means of influence. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2009 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund

By: Arthur I Segel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
The Jonathan Rose Companies must decide how to design and launch an innovative new real estate fund focused on green and transit oriented properties. JRC seeks to show through the fund that smart growth and green buildings provide superior economic returns to sprawl... View Details
Keywords: Property; Buildings and Facilities; Transition; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment; Marketing; Energy Conservation; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Real Estate Industry
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  • Editorial

Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Investment Fund; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Finance; Growth and Development; Failure
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  • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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  • Research Summary

Negotiating Campaigns

By: James K. Sebenius
While most negotiation research focuses on specific transactions, many important negotiating situations can better be understood as elements of larger "campaigns."  By this term, I mean a series of related negotiations and other away-from-the-table... View Details
  • March 2013 (Revised April 2014)
  • Case

Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution

By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Kimball Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer
The case describes competition in the market for E-Books, and Barnes & Noble's Strategy in this industry. As a traditional retailer, B&N was challenged by the introduction of digital technologies that allow books to be published, distributed and sold to consumers... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Technology Strategy; Platform Competition; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology; Product Development; Digital Platforms; Standards; Disruptive Innovation; Retail Industry; Publishing Industry; North America
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  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

illustrate how team members' identities and interests intertwine to affect the distribution and flow of information, subgroup dynamics, and team decisions. Findings-We develop three specific ideas to demonstrate the utility of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Book

Success with Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research

By: Shiv Gaglani, Maria Elena De Obaldia, Scott Duke Kominers, Dayan Li and Carol Y. Suh
Do you want to develop useful skills, gain admission to top colleges, win scholarship money, excel at science competitions, and explore career options all while having fun? By reading this book and using the advice within it, you will learn how to formulate a research... View Details
Keywords: Science; Research
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  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

the present. Q: One of the payoffs in your book for global strategists is an analysis of the top ten countries in terms of economic development and potential trajectories. Obviously each situation is different, but which countries would... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

and identity change interacted. We find instances in which urgent focus on design change consumed top management attention and crowded out identity change; in which experimentation in design made it premature to develop a new identity;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2018
  • Article

Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818

By: Sudev J Sheth
The meaning of land revenue farming in Indian history has eluded consensus. Some view it as an administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iqṭāʻ... View Details
Keywords: Iqṭāʻ; Ijārah; Revenue Farming; Financial Agents; Mughal Empire; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Property; Finance; South Asia
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  • 2022
  • Book

Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

By: Jeremy Friedman
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

individuals in MBA and Executive MBA programs. Our third study developed survey measures of the six implicit voice theories identified in the prior two studies in a new sample of 265 adults with diverse work experience, and examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

includes: the careful selection of employees who are believers in these values and in establishing "how we do things around here"; the development of realistic expectations in the minds of new employees and meeting them in ways... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

but also that NEAD chains produced more transplants for highly sensitized and blood type O recipients. Read the paper: http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/Nonsimultaneous%20Chains%20AJT%202011.pdf Female Empowerment: Impact of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets—a phenomenon that is not observed in new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384 Harvard Business School Case 216-086 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

  Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

2000. As an exploitative plantation industry, the rubber and palm oil industries in Indonesia and Malaysia couldn’t be considered a civilizing force, at least initially, Giacomin says. Yet, after rubber clusters based on foreign-invested View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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