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  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

available at this time. Read this article: http://www.responsible-investor.com/home/article/one_report   Working PapersDeveloping Negotiation Case Studies Author:James K. Sebenius Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Minding The Gap

leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana Abstract As the main producers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the... View Details
Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Brazil and Russia. My London School of Economics colleague Janet Hunter and I start our chapter with skepticism about such rankings, suggesting for example that the good standing of the United States in such metrics probably fails to take into View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

but increased Hollande's vote share in the first round and accounted for one-fourth of his victory margin in the second. Visits' impact persisted in later elections, suggesting a lasting persuasion effect. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

firm-level turbulence starting in the 1990s, as measured by the average intra-industry rank change in sales, enterprise value, and other metrics. Furthermore, we find that IT-intensive industries account for most of this increase in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Cash By Christopher Kawaja (MBA 2004) and Shannon Matthiesen Independently published Most of us know how to balance the immediate needs of a checking account or to invest long term for our retirement plans. But financial advice falls... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed., edited by David O. Renz,... View Details
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor countries, while there has been divergence in penetration rates. Using a model of adoption and growth, we show that these changes in the pattern of technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost Accounting: A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

insurance crisis of 2002-2003. The study tracks the promotion and use of a set of accounting and risk controls put in place to control the troubled insurance division and discusses how and why particular management control systems shift... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

time, because the time horizon is in minutes. Whereas in managerial roles, you have to think in longer time horizons, and you're not always thanked for your work. Ely: What about the structures, as opposed to roles? Kanter: What would... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

profitable capacity given the realized emissions price. In addition to these managerial insights, we also explore policy implications: the effect of emissions price level and the effect of investment and production subsidies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

entrepreneurs, identifies the leadership paradigm of the future: the ability to “think outside the building” to overcome establishment paralysis and produce significant innovation for a better world. Kanter provides extraordinary accounts... View Details