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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
industry as "unconcentrated." We find mixed support for the hypotheses that the ranks of mid-sized agencies were depleted by ongoing waves of mergers and acquisitions and resulted in a polarized size structure. The size... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Review 88 Abstract Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
rankings even after changing employers: women. Unlike their male counterparts, female stars who switched firms performed just as well, in the aggregate, as those who stayed put. The 189 star women in the sample (18% of the star analysts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
probiotic beverage products throughout different regions of the world. The book includes in-depth knowledge of local authors on indigenous and commercially produced probiotic beverages and related products. Examining current advancements... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
and staff officer during the Iraq War. Reaching the rank of captain while serving as a battalion adjutant in charge of all personnel matters, Johnson won raves from superiors and subordinates alike. Whether leading soldiers or civilians,... View Details
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
benefits associated with IFRS adoption. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-032.pdf The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The central role of "platform" View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Miller wrote in a 1948 issue. "After July 1, these class notes will emanate from Crossett, Arkansas, where I will be busily engaged in learning the forest products industry." The Bulletin's expanded alumni reporting during World War II... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
usual domain. A couple of months earlier, in February 2014, Viana had read an article in the newspaper Le Parisien about Biscuiterie Jeannette, a company founded in Caen in 1850 and known across France for its madeleines—the shell-shaped little cakes that View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Business School Case 715-024 Bhutan: Governing for Happiness Unique among the world's countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
White stay-at-home mothers are idealized, while black stay-at-home mothers are stereotyped as lazy welfare exploiters, because unlike white mothers, society expects black mothers to work. In one experiment Cuddy described, participants were asked to View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
contemplated becoming a professor, but was persuaded to stay on at the School. In 1963, he completed his DBA and joined the faculty. Over the next seventeen years, he moved up through the School’s ranks — teaching finance, writing cases,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
is no simple matter to rank the importance of myriad institutions. Minimum conditions of basic education, transportation, and communications must be in place; but the question of institutions remains centered on basic empowerment.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front costs in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
based on our financial thresholds. The bulk of the business leaders on our list were culled from an extensive review of historical biographical references and business rankings. The rankings included historical lists by Fortune, Forbes,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne