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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
with two other Bay general partners as disagreement about internal economics and governance continued among the Bay's six-member management team.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to do for me?" says Solmssen,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
through all that...and come up with clear policy," he said. But he agreed with Sebati that some governments are committed and others are not. Limited Resources Clear... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
sales begin to plummet. Other local governments and India's federal food-safety regulator also consider bans. Nestlé must decide how to respond. Options include suing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
supporting this model abound. While IBM concentrated on building complex and costly mainframes, for instance, Digital Equipment Corporation created the minicomputer for users with more limited needs View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
better consumption smoothing, issue more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
place, while the results of that innovation leads to learning that reshapes the strategy. Lean Strategy enables company builders to pursue viable opportunities, stay focused, and align the entire organisation while View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
asset seizure by enemy governments. Negotiation Some directly negotiated favorable business arrangements with local governments and decision makers. Perseverance Some adopted the approach of resilience,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto, two HBS students, have decided to give each other feedback on their class participation. While Denise believes that she has provided concrete, actionable feedback to Paolo, she... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
that result in a failure to notice ethical erosion when it occurs slowly. Broadly, our studies provide evidence as to when and why people overlook cheating by others and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
. Expecting rationality in growth just limits the prospects of growth. There are no boundaries to growth." Others suggest that certain kinds of growth are particularly important. M. Ramji comments, ". . . we should also consider... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
prioritize family over work. It's that all these other factors are also at play for women" that lead them to cut back their hours in a way that men often don't—factors such as exclusion from informal networks in the workplace, a lack... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
extraordinary government support to help stabilize the funding of global financial institutions. In light of the problems that emerged during the crisis, a number of MMF reforms have been proposed, which we... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalco.pdf Paying It Forward: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne