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  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

to the study, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. In the edited remarks below, they discuss the findings and implications of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

maintaining a supply network for a global pandemic response initiative. Managing supply is particularly challenging for three reasons. First, demand View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy." Jim Aisner of HBS spoke with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

engine for the extraordinary motivation and commitment demanded by creativity. As organizations become increasingly diverse and their boundaries flexible and amorphous, the notion of what brings people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

complex. The deal was proof-of-concept for Fluidity, which hoped to develop a business digitizing securities issuance for other real estate assets on the basis of its technical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

ones, thereby increasing the impact of composition and complexity on CEO pay beyond the premium the CEO would demand for bearing additional compensation risk. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

  Working PapersUnmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity Authors:Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Abstract This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

positive demand for external funds. Conditional on issuance of new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a matter of law, have any such obligation. Yet it's hard for them to resist View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

recourse to funds-of-funds. We use asset allocation concepts to estimate characteristics of the funds-of-funds benchmark distribution. Since the benchmark characteristics are reasonable, we conclude that funds-of-funds, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

know whether Venezuela plans to pay a fair price for the assets that it is nationalizing. In the ITT story I tell in my book, Indonesia nationalized ITT's telecommunications facility in 1980, but it paid a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

forthcoming Abstract Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

achieve better outcomes in competitive contexts.   Working PapersAre There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne