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  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese companies that were more... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

power in a small socio-economic class. Such an environment was less tolerant of the elitism and paternalism found in large, family-dominated companies in Britain. A corporate meritocracy emerged that fostered the development of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted. The experiment involved... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

world's most elite and demanding professional service firms—The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—could work together to ensure that they each could truly disconnect from work for a scheduled unit of time each week. This modest experiment... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/10/the-cure-for-horrible-bosses/ar/1 Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities Authors:Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

business park at Canary Wharf, three miles outside of central London. Peter Charleton, head of the London Office, is proposing to move to Canary Wharf and building a single, landmark headquarters with all the necessary amenities and premium fit-outs that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates attempt to influence their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

Industrial Revolution witnessed the founding of many elite business schools in the United States, beginning with the Wharton School in 1881. Harvard Business School, founded in 1908, was one of the first to promote the idea that managers... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

political and economic elite help explain the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17852 Expertise Dissensus: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243 forthcoming Governance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices. In particular, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hypotheses and mixed support for our third: organizational infrastructure and identity significantly affect practice adoption, albeit in different ways, but only marginal support for leadership and elite organizational status. Our results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

other prime locations in Chicago Downtown, and high interest rates suggested he should think long and hard before committing the company's resources to this speculative undertaking. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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