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- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsBundling the Contracts: TA-Energy Harvard Business School Case 807-075 Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which contains an in-depth View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
countries where they operate. We find that our index of transparency across host countries is lower the more corrupt the host country, the higher the number of nationalizations in that host View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro: Four key themes emerge from an analysis of this struggle between two firms and their governments. The first is how managers can use international organizations, in this case the World Trade Organization, as... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
happened was good or bad, but whether or not much better results could have been achieved with better leadership. This is a very important question to be addressed to business leadership also. We conclude that America has not had very good presidential leadership. Our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
are now beginning to treat genetic analysis as an integral element in a patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan. But it cannot stop there. Since most currently practicing physicians have not been trained in this new field, there is a need... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
cash flow to ensure this. Evidence shows that there are limits to venture capital as a solution to the funding gap, especially in countries where public equity markets for venture capital exit are not highly developed. We conclude by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
deficit as an economically meaningless figure is not a new position, the authors say. What is different about their paper is that it shows that this proposition is completely general—it applies to the standard framework for economic View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
organizational sustainability and characterizes the situations in which a social enterprise should be sustainable. The analysis then delineates when an investment in a social enterprise delivers superior impact to a grant. Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
For many years, Americans have shown their generosity to myriad nonprofit organizations. And 1999 was no exception, as charitable giving in this country reached a record high of just over $190 billion. At the same time, however, there is... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
better as Dean.” Light viewed globalization as a significant opportunity for the School and opened a research center in India and the Harvard Center Shanghai. New courses brought MBA students to countries in Asia, Africa, and South... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
outside the United States view us, they look at organizations like Boeing, DuPont, GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble as gold standard companies. We tend to lament that manufacturing is going down, but outside our country they... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
achieve social value." REDF recently hired a full-time financial analyst, formerlywith J.P. Morgan, to help build models for SROI. REDF also practices venture philanthropy through efforts such as targeted business analysis and... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
underlying this micro-process research. Analysis of the rate of citation of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational studies research reveals that open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
explore three distinct channels through which FDI affects establishment performance: (i) production linkages, (ii) financial linkages, and (iii) multinational networks. Our analysis shows that while multinational-owned establishments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace