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  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

Healy, George Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar, and Gui Yang Abstract We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side analysts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

hand in a clear manner. It offers recommendations for both those seeking and giving advice to make the process as effective as possible. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-art-of-giving-and-receiving-advice January 2015 Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

long-term growth with disruptive potential, Summa invested in four thematic areas that were mapped to megatrends outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—trends Summa believed presented long-term growth opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

isolation, and as a consequence avoid deviating much-for any given subset-from the expected overall distribution of judgments. For instance, an interviewer who has already highly recommended three applicants on a given day may be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

problems at companies with strong incentives and weak controls. I believe that we may need a new kind of external agency for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

brands. He describes four different ad types and explains how each can influence multitasking consumers. To create an effective media mix, he recommends that companies take advantage of lean advertising principles and adopt a sequential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

United States, what questions would you recommend they ask themselves before proceeding? A: The most important thing that any executive considering an investment in the United States can do is to ponder the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Experimentation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—The fundamental uncertainty of new technologies at their earliest stages implies that it is virtually impossible to know the true potential of a venture without learning about its viability through a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

Mr. Smith do?" Today, as management has become more sophisticated, with a wider array of technical theories and tools, detailed analytical questions are the norm. Students still come to class with a recommended decision and... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

insufficient) risk, forgo profitable projects, and ignore the cost of capital. We describe the causes of the problems associated with widely prevalent executive bonus plans and offer our recommendations for fixing them. We focus on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

collaboration. Second, they didn't organize effectively for collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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