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  • 2010
  • Book

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Publisher's Link: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470392509.html How to Catch a Tiger: Understanding Putting Performance on the PGA TOUR Authors:Douglas Fearing, Jason Acimovic, and Stephen C. Graves Publication:Journal of Quantitative View Details
  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

Hoel (hbs Mba '93) Managing Director, Menlo Ventures I always look at the market first. By that I mean a strategic view that includes evaluating market growth, market size, competition, and customer adoption rates. If a company has a... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

Terminations: Learning from Competitors’ R&D Failures, Krieger explores how pharmaceutical companies choose to react strategically when a competitor exits the market during the development stage. These companies may decide further... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

comparability and credibility. Instrumental variables analysis suggests that increases in sustainability disclosure driven by the regulation are associated with increases in firm valuations, as reflected in Tobin’s Q. Collectively, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

discussed in terms of strategic and non-strategic linguistic cues.   Working PapersFinding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value Authors:Bertoneche, Marc L., and Cornis Van der Lugt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

  Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

if you hold firm on your terms. Careful analysis may reveal that the other party needs the deal as much or more than you do. Then there are psychological factors to consider, like the power of working from one's own ideal number rather... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

  PublicationsThe Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Pavel Zhelyazkov Publication:The Academy of Management Annals (forthcoming) Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

potentially greater, more contingent control rights are used. 2006 Strategic Organization Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda? By: Lerner, Josh, Shane Greenstein, and Scott Stern Abstract—This essay discusses the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

implementation of strategic plans. This case stimulates reflections on the importance of costing systems, in particular Time-Driven Activity Based Costing, and variance analysis as decision support... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maximization net of transaction and agency costs. We then use case examples to extend the theory into practical settings and derive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with driving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
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