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- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
vision is realized, we only stand to benefit from the interactions and activities the move will bring. Q: What's your view on business school rankings? A: The difficulty with the rankings is they don't reflect any of the interesting and... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
full lockdown has significant economic consequences, as most commercial activity comes to a halt. Also, in democratic societies, a complete lockdown is difficult and likely impossible to enforce. This is why the use of face masks becomes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, strategy beyond markets has been an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative activity after settling with NPEs (or losing to them in court). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Investment Advisor (RIA) industry that seeks to value for its investors through asset diversification and active macro-level investing. The firm implements its proprietary investment model by trading exclusively exchange-traded funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
of their activities across countries and industries are of central importance to this volume. In addition, contributors consider how environmental factors of individual economies, such as market regulation, government subsidies for banks,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
marketplace render such efforts and their impacts transient at best? Do firms, in fact, frequently or at least sometimes behave this way, reducing their earnings by voluntarily engaging in environmental stewardship? And finally, should firms carry out such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
even well-intentioned practitioners just may not have the skill set to properly implement the standards. In the study of international adoption of standards I mentioned previously, one of the things we find is that oversight by a regulator who is View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
productivity. Ideally, you need to make your technical staff aware of the tradeoffs and the technical/competitive landscape without building barriers to creativity. One thing is to appoint a technical gatekeeper that will keep close watch on the technical View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
there are important implications for firm boundaries, design, and identity. The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda Authors:Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano Publication:The Rate and Direction of Inventive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
template; and (3) pause before elaborating the activity system. The insights from our framework contribute to research on optimal distinctiveness and to the learning and evolutionary-adjustment literature on search. More broadly, we blend... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range of approaches—from proxy votes and demands for Board seats,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in which business leaders in... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-107.pdf The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty By: Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki Abstract—To create social ties to support their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar's engagement in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
good times. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-037.pdf What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies' Transparency? Authors:Paul Healy, Venkat Kuppuswamy, and George Serafeim Abstract We examine determinants of oil and gas companies' transparency in reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
certain milestones in international relations preceding the ICC's formation; provides an overview of the ICC and its activities as of March 2010; and outlines Kenya's post-election crisis in 2007-2008 and the ICC's decision to intervene.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010. An abstract is unavailable at this time. Working PapersThe Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace