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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
analysis. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-026 GM's Capital Allocation Framework In March of 2015, General Motors announced the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon effects in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
any economy: Ownership shapes the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers, grants access and control over capital and resources, and mediates the governance of economic enterprises. Despite its centrality, the topic of... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
deployment to a challenging context is associated with human capital development. Managers initially deployed to more challenging contexts were not, however, more likely to break into the upper echelons of the organization. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
(Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the transaction utility (Thaler, 1985; 1999)-depends on whether the allocation occurs within a particular social... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the governing principle of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously to permit a more efficient View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
by utilizing only a modest portion of its total worth annually. Allocating a larger percentage over time, regardless of the motivation, would favor current needs at the expense of future ones. This approach would conflict with an... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract In this paper we use highly disaggregated data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability and how firms can use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
and the technology. Therefore, rather than allocate capital to competing projects (the zero-sum game), senior managers must nurture individual expertise and initiative, then leverage it through cross-unit... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
our capital markets—the envy of the world—are so liquid and effective," he says. "Mutual funds deepen the capital markets, and the capital markets lubricate our... View Details