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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Abstract—One of the most important transitions of China from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy was the emergence of entrepreneurship in two different forms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
hospitals in smaller cities across India, with a goal to operate 30,000 beds in seven years, which will make it comparable with the world's largest hospital chains. NH operates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
comprehensive research guide for real estate students, professionals, and executives. It includes lists of real estate industry trade organizations, publicly available research resources, books, and journals relevant to a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
negotiator who wants to be fair from the start ensure that his or her counterpart will be reasonable as well? The authors propose the final-offer arbitration challenge, which leverages an approach first... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
professionals from engaging in profit maximization. If the traditional professions are to be asked to accept a greater role for market forces, is... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912003-PDF-ENG Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. GreenHarvard Business School Case 912-028 Describes the background and career of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. I have worked... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Allstate's stock price rose 45%, buoyed by Wilson's promise that return on equity would reach 13% by 2014. At the May 2012 AGM, Wilson's support from shareholders surged to 97%. By the end of 2012, revenues... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
needs. Odutola's keen, unwavering interest in improving the infrastructure of Nigeria allowed him to enjoy a successful career in business and politics, despite the vastly fluctuating political landscape of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
improve. Future research, Neeley says, includes exploring the role of language as the mechanism by which companies transform from a domestic to a global player-the fulcrum of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior By: Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese Abstract—The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services Authors:Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Ginos Abstract Sustaining workers' productivity is critical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
company provided analytic services to healthcare plans, typically Medicare Advantage plans, in efforts to draw conclusions from massive amounts of patient data. The company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
business interests, while Malaysia’s government took a softer approach, allowing companies to continue operations in exchange for training and development programs that helped smallholder farmers switch... View Details