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  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

  Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network Authors:Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract This article examines the population dynamics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

between following a prosocial norm and self-regulation. We tested 433 children between 6 and 13 years of age in two variations of the Dictator Game (DG). Children were asked what they should or would give in the game and then played an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

messages sent to all employees. The result: Continental changed its culture, energized employees who felt, "We are all in this together," and achieved its goal within one month. The company then raised the bar on its goals year... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

chosen to pursue scale or impact or both: Akshaya Patra, Magic Bus, Health Leads, Year Up (YU), and KaBoom! Both Akshaya Patra and Magic Bus committed to transformative scale by remaining focused on their core mission and gaining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

get an annual budget from the provincial government but philanthropy still plays an important role in funding new programs and research and augmenting services.” The Foundation, which is one of Canada’s largest charities, provided $48.5 million in grants to CAMH during... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808107 Parks Capital-Investment in US Retail, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 208-104 Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel Manufacturer, American Child Clothing Manufacturers, Inc. (ACCM), in 2001.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

and Lehman's failure would require skills, knowledge of financial services, and connections within the industry. ProPublica had been created only a year earlier as an independent, non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

Offshore Wind Energy in the USA Harvard Business School Case 708-022 Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY—not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

of chains in addition to exchanges. This review is designed to provide insight into the challenges that face the emerging national KPD system in the U.S., now five years into its development. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our strongest results are for portfolios... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

countries whether to participate in the United Nations Global Compact. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47799 Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions. With empirical chapters from across the contemporary Global South, including India, Mexico, and China, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

also higher in the presence of shareholder activism. We also find that director election results matter for director retention: directors are more likely to leave in the year following activism when they receive lower shareholder support.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance