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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

opportunistic traders are local non-senior insiders, who come from geographically concentrated, poorly governed firms. Lastly, opportunistic traders are significantly more likely to have SEC enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin
This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details
Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education
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  • 07 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

Governments and policymakers often assume that infrastructure development is key to jumpstarting economic growth for citizens, an “If we build it they will come” chain reaction of new jobs, more efficient transportation, and safer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction
  • 14 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Keywords: by Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • January 2010
  • Article

Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Capital Expansion

By: Henry Chen, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner
We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that venture capital firms locate in regions with high success rates of venture... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Expansion; Success; Capital; Geographic Location; Business Units; Corporate Accountability; Business Offices; Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Boston; New York (state, US); San Francisco
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  • 21 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often been lost to View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
  • December 2004 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Brcko and the Arizona Market

By: Bruce R. Scott and Edward Murphy
Explores the role of the U.S. military in facilitating the establishment of a spectacularly successful free trade area in one of the most devastated areas of Bosnia. NATO's imposition of law and order, plus protection from local political protection rackets, led to... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Economic Growth; Industry Growth; Government Legislation; Emerging Markets; Bosnia and Hercegovina; United States
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    David G. Fubini

    David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

    • 19 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • February 2016 (Revised August 2021)
    • Case

    Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights

    By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
    In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. On... View Details
    Keywords: Rights; Voting; Race; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Leadership; History; Alabama
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    • Article

    The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries.

    Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Trade; Economy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; System Shocks; Price; Restructuring; Interests; Energy Industry; Steel Industry; China
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    • 25 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

    Kirby. "Why does the state dominate the wine industry? Because it is ludicrously profitable. Institutionally, you have these bottlenecks." Oftentimes it is not the central government that is the biggest problem, but View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 26 Apr 2018
    • News

    Why JPMorgan Chase is Investing Millions in Detroit

    • June 2012
    • Article

    The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers' productivity and organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Organizational Learning; Operational Control; Organizational Performance; Chinese Manufacturing; Field Experiment; Rights; Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Performance Productivity; Boundaries; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry; China
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    Alumni

    #FutureLeaders #BusinessCommunity #AlumniEvents @HBSAlumni @hbsalumni Meet Brendan Hellweg and Cherie Chung, HBS/HKS grads on a mission to help local governments hire faster. At Holly, they’re solving a... View Details
    • 22 Aug 2014
    • News

    The fumbles in Ferguson

      Joseph B. Fuller

      Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

      • 01 May 2025
      • HBS Seminar

      Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

      • 28 May 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

      Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
      • 07 Aug 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: August 7, 2007

      community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace