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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
limited short-term financial returns at the other (theatre 3). Furthermore, the paper seeks a moratorium on the fruitless debate about CSR definition and societal value, instead providing pragmatic guidance for corporations to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
because the KR—despite its appearance of equivalent accessibility—is actually more accessible to central than peripheral players. Thus, KR use is not driven primarily by the need to overcome limited access to other knowledge sources.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
measures. But he is wrong in his assumption that the approach he has followed for the past six months will help the Greek people. Greece is now closer than ever to an exit from the European Union. As of today, capital controls limit the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
client-service approach to working with Limited Partners. For the fund, Banks and Yudkoff had intended to raise $1 billion and continue their existing strategy, but potential Limited View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-011 Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives insight into the types of investments... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in our own best interests. This is as true of health decisions as it is of economic ones. An array of biases, limits on cognition,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
MaterialsNote on Direct Selling in Developing Economies Michael Chu and Joel SegreHarvard Business School Case 310-068 Informal and formal direct selling play a particularly important role in developing countries characterized by markets with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
system of a large federal credit union, we delineate four important constraints likely to affect the lending process: (1) limited attention (or distraction), (2) task-specific human capital, (3) peer perception, and (4) learning over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
parties and then decide whether to attempt to raise new capital, declare bankruptcy, or try to lead a controlled wind-down. The case explores crisis management, decisions by principals operating in the zone of insolvency, construction contract types, the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 Abstract Due to its clandestine nature, most of what we understand about corruption comes from survey evidence and self-reported perceptions of corruption: this limits both the range of questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
for people convicted of felonies. Honest Jobs experienced hiring and fundraising challenges early on. Blakeman struck out with a business partner he ultimately bought out, plus he hired and then laid off senior people in business... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
Abbott's career imprint could be called a "functional career imprint." Baxter generated a disproportionate number of leaders in the biotechnology industry. During the early 1980s, when the biotech industry was just heating up and venture capitalists (VCs)... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today's managing directors must balance conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations of partners at all levels.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
At the beginning of the year, corporate skullduggery seemed limited to one or two egregious examples. A couple of bad apples won't spoil the whole bunch, we said to ourselves. But in the past several months, rottenness may have achieved a... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
valuable source of differentiated value creation by PE funds,” says Srinivasan. “Smaller and mid-sized businesses have limited expertise to pursue a digital transformation strategy. On the other hand, their size and sophistication give PE... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
equity, using unexplored custodial data regarding 112 limited partners over four decades. We differentiate between alternative vehicles that are GP directed versus those where the LP has some discretion. Of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman