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  • 12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12

External risks arise from events outside the company and are beyond its influence or control. Sources of these risks include natural and political disasters and major macroeconomic shifts. Risk events from any category can be fatal to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

expert witness, dealing with governmental organizations, working with schools and students, and influencing public policy, this volume helps social scientists forge the vital link between scholarship and social engagement. Contributors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

strength in many ways, including having influence in other countries because we've taught those leaders here. So these kinds of restrictions, small restrictions, began to undermine our competitiveness. “Values-based capitalism starts with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

that while the manufacturer's dependence advantage diminishes its performance, the supplier's dependence advantage has a null effect. We discuss the implications of these findings for studies of interorganizational interdependence. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

breach leads to feelings of violation and can occur even when employees’ economic contracts are fulfilled. We study the effects of psychological contract breach on three common types of employee participation in budgeting that differ in the degree of employees’ View Details
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

very narrow slice. They know exactly the kind of customer they're looking at and they can go at them. Of course, this was subject then to other influences like the Russian influences, but I just felt that this goes way beyond Cambridge... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy? By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Maya Reddy Abstract—In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Building on previous research in economics and psychology, we propose that the costliness of initial prosocial behavior positively influences whether that behavior leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

is capital intensive and when it is difficult for headquarters to identify the value-maximizing investment strategy for the business unit. In evaluating the performance of profit centers, rate-of-return measures like ROA are likely to be effective when unit managers do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

uses the Mexican coffee economy to show how rural landholders and workers had a surprisingly large influence on foreign—and state—driven modernization projects, and how small plantations outlasted large ones in the Soconusco. "It's a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

of health insurance obligations. But by disengaging, employers lose much of their ability to influence the costs of poor health. This is what many European companies have discovered. In Sweden, for example, excessive rates of absenteeism... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

creation of jobs and attracting investment, said Bruce Bolnick, a fellow in Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. However, he did not agree that business should have a free hand in directly influencing grand economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

funding that it has? How would the choice of financial instrument affect and be affected by the business strategy, and how is the instrument choice influenced by the general development of the financial markets in China? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

giant audacity. As one company executive explained, "Many companies pass the same way in Israel. The difference is really not personal. The difference is in the recognition that going the path that history wrote for us, we will remain a small Israeli company that will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

the boundaries of organizations. Though experience and productivity improvement may be seen as key benefits of this trend, little is known about how this shift toward outsourcing influences learning. When producing a unit of output, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

influence without authority-and how businesspeople can effectively work with a design firm. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408057 Purchase Supplement (B), 408-069:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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