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  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

commonly observed organizational pattern, review the empirical evidence, and conclude with open research questions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49262 Forthcoming Journal of Economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less well understood... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our analysis presents new stylized facts that suggest the emerging offshore clusters of multinationals are not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown

Highly publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of widespread default that would... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bonds; Investment Return; City
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  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its economic and political doldrums... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain

By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a US retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by business... View Details
Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Decision Making; Economics; Geography; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Retail Industry
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  • November 1994
  • Case

American Rice, Inc. in Vietnam

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Quintus Travis
Describes the first major joint venture between a U.S. and Vietnam rice company with reqard to the world rice trade. What are the opportunities and what are the challenges? View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Trade; Global Range; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Food and Beverage Industry; Viet Nam; United States
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  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locations impact the creation and appropriation of value by firms, the speed of these changes has often surpassed the speed of research on the connections between geography and firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Global Entrepreneurship Course Number 1631 Professor Paul Gompers Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Formerly known as Entrepreneurship Outside of the Valley Overview: Entrepreneurship has been shown to be a major driver of View Details
  • 2023
  • Chapter

Discussion of Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism

By: Laura Alfaro
Keywords: Global Range; Economics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalization; International Relations; Policy
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  • June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Technical Note

Note on the Future of Commerce

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Nathaniel Schwalb
In 2019, the retail and consumer product industries were undergoing a significant transformation. Over the past 50 years, what was once a highly fragmented industry began to consolidate, digitize, and increase convenience while lowering costs. The winning enterprises... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Transformation; Global Range; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Leading Change; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Understand the science, economic impact, and policy implications of climate change Identify and communicate the risks and opportunities posed by climate change across industries Leverage insights from real-world examples to inform future... View Details
  • Career Coach

Sasha Grinshpun

have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

providing recommendations for advisors and identifying areas ripe for future research to illuminate the advisor side of the advice-exchange process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54760 forthcoming Journal of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2022 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

EnergyNow: Powering a New Market

By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett
In August 2022, EnergyNow co-founder and CEO Stuart MacWilliam (MBA 2015) considers the company strategy for building solar panels to provide power in South Africa’s recently deregulated energy market. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Development Economics; Energy; Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Management; Ethics; Geography; Government and Politics; Energy Policy; Law; Management; Markets; Market Timing; Operations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; South Africa
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  • 08 Jun 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

expanding their own data-gathering and crunching capabilities through advancements like sensor networks and sophisticated modeling software. What if cities could make use of all that data to better give residents what they need—for example, using Google Street View to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products