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20 Mar 2019
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Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a recent paper scheduled to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle

Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could mobilize the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

20 Apr 2016
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When CEOs Become Activists

issues that are not directly related to their companies’ bottom lines” “This is distinct from traditional corporate social responsibility, where you can clearly see the connection to promoting the company’s objectives,” explains Toffel, who co-authored a recent View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2016
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Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

are the average experience in PE partnerships, Ivashina says. In their working paper released in March, Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership, she and Lerner found that a partner’s pay was often tied... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

19 Jun 2013
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Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

able to solve these problems, it's many of the people in this room." Much of the conference comprised presentations of scientifically rigorous research papers that provided clear implications for leaders and organizations. Topics... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

reporting, while strengthening vigorous enforcement of environmental laws. “This workshop was a gold mine of new contacts, information, and studies,” he says. One paper that Silberman found particularly interesting looked at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

entire group at the conclusion of the program. Teams are then expected to submit a written paper (15-20 pages) soon after their return to Boston. Each student is also expected to submit brief thoughts (1 sentence to 1 paragraph) at the... View Details

22 Apr 2013
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Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

lie in research by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. Power from Sunshine: A Business History of Solar EnergyThis paper by Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane provides a business history of solar energy... View Details

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room. Do not take notes on top of the photographs. Do not rest arms or hands on the photographs. Use only clean, acid-free strips of papers as markers. Duplication Services To assist scholars with their research,... View Details

18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter

in opening a lot of doors for me.” Shortly after the initial Capital Times story about Burke, the paper ran another one about her a few days later. It announced that Burke had made a gift of $2.5 million for a proposed charter school,... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

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Introduction - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

industrial settings ranging from automobile plants to paper mills. Researchers will find photographs relating to U.S. industry as well as business operations in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The collections’... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if they’re launching because of a lack... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2002
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Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives

time the stock price dips, you've set up a situation where managers can never lose. What kind of incentive is that?" Meulbroek asks. In fact, the assumption that underwater options dramatically weaken managerial incentives may itself be invalid, according to a working... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Muelbroek; Li Jin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Fair Competition

competition policy, law and economics, and federalism. I recently published a paper in the Business History Review, titled “California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy.” [This article was... View Details

24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2024
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Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

researchers measured changes in people’s attitudes before, during, and after protests on a variety of topics, including environmental protection, gender equality, gun control, immigration, national and international politics, and racial issues. In a working View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2014
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Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

comprehensive field-based study and analysis of the Nobel Prize from a brand and reputation perspective. "In a real sense, everybody knows what the Nobel Prize is and what it does, but practically nobody knows how it does it," write Mats Urde and Stephen Greyser in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

October 2022
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The SAH Group: The Time is Right, Instructor Spreadsheet

By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar

In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019, it expanded... View Details

Keywords: Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Decisions; Growth Management; Vertical Integration; Distribution; Competition; Strategy; Supply Chain; Presentations; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Tunisia

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