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  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

auditors. We find evidence to support the argument that auditors' decisions are influenced by financial conflicts of interest. But we also find evidence that their decisions are shaped by social factors, including an auditor's experience, gender, and professional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

examined the relationships between inventory, gross profit dollars, and gross margin return on inventory. We find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to gross margin return on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

the company had lost its "human touch" in the process of professionalizing and modernizing to capitalize on the fantastic market opportunities that had opened up in Spain. Some felt that the work was now too structured and interpersonal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

II, determining the proper phasing, assessing a potential partnership, and managing relationships with the slum community benefiting from the development. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217013-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

exploitation tends to drive out exploration, rendering organizations rigid and vulnerable to environmental change. Drawing on the Carnegie School, we propose a model where perturbation moderates the relationship between exploitation and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

On Credit

the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus has led to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

suppliers or host governments. High leverage prevents cash from accumulating inside project companies, thereby eliminating the temptation for related parties to seize the cash. It also helps enforce contracts by, somewhat paradoxically,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

another farewell, bound for every corner of the globe, they mark the completion of a degree and the beginning of a new relationship with one another and the School. (“It’s sad that we can’t all go to work for the same company,” one... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

These are important livelihoods for Americans and the number is growing with the gig economy and the opportunity to work remotely. Then there are about 4 million Main Street businesses: coffee shops, dry cleaners, and car repair operations, for example. Another 1... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

a deal with Woteer, and if so, on what terms? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-030 Building Effective Working Relationships This note introduces a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities, and its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the organizational hierarchy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

environmental performance. We hypothesize that key organizational characteristics reflecting visibility, such as size and environmental impact, shape this type of symbolic compliance and that these relationships are moderated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

many high-growth businesses in China, Gome has only moderate financing needs. Its charismatic and ambitious chairman Wong Kwongyu has built an expansive retail network in China and successfully used trade credits by suppliers and banks to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2010
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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
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

between organizational boundary spanners contributes to the formation of trust between firms. Our findings, using data on the supplier-buyer relationships of two major US auto manufacturers, suggest that history affects trust formation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

strong relationships with our suppliers that we easily convinced them to extend us additional terms to fill that first big order. We shipped the product and waited. Day 30 arrived and a check did not. On Day... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 912-003 Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne