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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
papers, and invoices, as well as personal letters, diaries, and journals that cast light on the world of doing business in nineteenth-century China. Heard Family business papers Mss:766 1754-1898 800 volumes, 272 boxes, 103 cartons Collection Guide Full texts of View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
back—relying on a School maxim that is nearly 90 years old. Chao Center construction (Architects of Group Genius) Bricks and Books HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien is the person charged with coordinating the School’s campus plan, a daunting job that involves... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
culture, technology, and economy to coevolve in unison under the rubric of an integral polity. Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth by Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997) (Wiley) This book is a roadmap to financial View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare to test a fixed-payment structure for a select group of head and neck cancer patients. Rather than receiving separate charges for every test, treatment, and appointment, patients in the three-year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
diagnosing whether a company is trapped in active inertia, selecting the right commitment, giving it traction, and avoiding mistakes that commonly derail transformation efforts. Sull maintains that inaction is rarely the cause of an... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
now is managing growth and our increasing organizational complexity. Last year was very active: we opened an office in Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
buyout transactions. Co-investments underperform the corresponding funds with which they co-invest, due to an apparent adverse selection of transactions available to these investors, while solo transactions outperform fund benchmarks.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
Management Nava Ashraf and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 910-030 This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
petition for Chapter 11 and becomes a "debtor in possession" (DIP), its assets and operations are protected by the "automatic stay," a legal injunction that prevents secured creditors from seizing their collateral—and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous worlds. In particular, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
board of directors for Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses volunteer talent from the private sector to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the armed forces and... View Details
- 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The findings suggest that adjustment constraints stem primarily from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016
spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne