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  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

fence-sitters. It’s important to know who’s who. First, determine who holds the power tools you need—the resources, information or expertise, and support or legitimacy, and then persuade them to invest in the effort. They will also be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

promotion. A government can carry out investment promotion itself, but this approach has the disadvantage that the government organization may be unable to acquire skills that are required if the activity is to be managed properly. The required skills may reside in the... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
  • 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
  • October 2017 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

Bitfury: Blockchain for Government

By: Mitchell Weiss and Elena Corsi
In the Republic of Georgia, legend had it their land was a precious gift from God he had intended to keep for his mother. But over time, the land had been under intermittent threat from without and within. In 2017, the Bitfury Group, which Valery Vavilov had... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Public Entrepreneurship; Public Innovation; Government Innovation; Property Rights; Property Registry; Technology Strategy; Distributed Networks; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Innovation and Invention; Technology Adoption; Business and Government Relations; Technology Industry; Real Estate Industry; Public Administration Industry; Georgia (nation, Asia); Tbilisi
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  • Web

From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

to build your skills. It’s also critical to assess the market. Get to know your industry or sector of interest broadly and deeply, familiarize yourself with the competitive landscape, and develop a point of view outside of your company.... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

David Moss is Rewriting History

be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial history through a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited self-reports or third-party attestation become more attractive as accounting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

to navigate this shifting and complex landscape. To mark the launch of BiGS, the School brought together senior executives in industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector for a day of discussion around current practices,... View Details
  • Web

Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

course, visit the HBS Executive Education site . For more information about a published case, click its title. CVS currently in development Founded in 1963, CVS Health (CVS) was the leading drugstore chain in the United States.... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Effectiveness By: Kim, Tami, Kate Barasz, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Given the increasingly specific ways marketers can target ads, many consumers and regulators are demanding ad transparency: disclosure of how consumers’ personal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2020
  • Case

Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state
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  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet, which shows the sensitivity of the enterprise's assets and liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

different time from operational review meetings. In that way, each meeting has its own frequency, agenda, information system, and participation, as best meets the goals for that meeting. Q: Given the proliferation of tools, how should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

James Has New Role

served in various administrative posts at the School for fifteen years, ending as Associate Dean and Senior Executive Officer. He then worked in the private sector as President and COO of The First Marblehead Corporation until 2005, when... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

being a modest market for British textiles into an expanding market not only for textiles, but for British iron and steel, machinery and coal. 1 However the transport and communication improvements also threatened merchant intermediaries by reducing uncertainty and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/12/the-microwork-solution/ar/1 Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

WTO, World Bank, and the OECD. Or they could be related to lagging capabilities of domestic companies, either in understanding foreign markets or in their own products, services, or value chains. Another large body of thinking is devoted to identifying specific View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

having the most material ESG issues, as well as investors anticipating proprietary and political costs as a result of the mandated disclosures. Overall, the results are consistent with the equity market perceiving that this disclosure regulation of nonfinancial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne