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  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

into domestic banking. In fact, its founders aimed to create both a commercial bank and an investment bank under one roof—that is, a "universal bank." By the end of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

strategic choices: geographic expansion, continued product innovation, serving MFIs outside of the OI network, and new distribution mechanisms to reach market segments beyond MFIs. Wholly owned by faith-based nonprofit OI, MIA must also factor in OI's desired mission... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

agricultural innovation, Ibrahim Mustapha is at the vanguard of what could be a green revolution. He belongs to a new farming program called Babban Gona, the brainchild of Kola Masha (MBA 2006) that is aggressively transforming Nigerian subsistence farmers into View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

prize. Viewers also had the opportunity to select a crowd favorite in each of the three tracks, with a prize value of $5,000. In a separate process that recognizes the unique challenges of companies commercializing breakthrough... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • News

Thanking Veterans Online

from fraud, yet simple enough for users to validate their status in a matter of seconds. Hall and Thompson's solution to this problem is Troop ID, a digital ID card that links an email address and password to a person's military credentials the way PayPal connects... View Details
Keywords: veterans; identity; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

offerings to maintain differentiation from copycats. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512065-PDF-ENG Citibank: Weathering the Commercial Real Estate Crisis of the Early 1990s Julie M. Wulf and Ian McKown... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

Business School Case 715-006 Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot-a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines-that historically tied the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Eileen Stephan

Eileen offers over 20 years of professional experience in recruiting, career management and career coaching in both the corporate and academic worlds. Her most recent position as Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management for Citigroup followed roles as... View Details
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  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

responsibility to other people and preferred a more informal means of organization. Krupp constantly intervened, questioned, and meddled in his executives' decisions. Siemens evinced a disdain for commercial organization, even calling one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
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Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify was interested in View Details
Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of loans issued by foreign View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman