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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
nonpayor" debate around judicial corruption. The model highlights formal similarities between lobbying and extortion. Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling-Device Authors:Rafael Di... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced during each phase of her career and how she managed them. Lagarde started her career in 1981 as a lawyer at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
over-extrapolation plays a role and find some evidence in favor of these models. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-065.pdf and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Authors:Scott Snook, Herminia Ibarra, and Laura Ramo Publication:Chap. 22 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana Abstract Despite the wealth of managerial and scholarly attention paid to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
realization that wealth creation has nothing to do with nations so much as it does with companies, professionals, global consumers, and global capital,” he notes. “Boundaries between nations are becoming thinner; companies are acquiring a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as mechanisms to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong Abstract We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
million to $15 million. During this phase, you can self-finance or establish a search fund to recruit potential investors. Strike a deal. When you’ve settled on a target, do preliminary due diligence to confirm the business’s viability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49565 December 2015 Personality and Individual Differences On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People Around the World Have Fewer International Friends By: Yearwood,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
increasing disposal cost decreases the amount of waste generated and, of the waste generated, more is converted into by-product. By-product synergy also shifts wealth from the primary market to the by-product market as disposal cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider official flows as the main driver of uphill flows and global imbalances is an important shortcoming of the recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit business enterprises. Much of this scholarship is framed in relation to “shareholder primacy”—the view that managers should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
The case follows MBA graduate Emily Figel as she researches LendingClub as a potential investment vehicle for the small wealth management firm she will join in the fall. Using LendingClub’s historical data, she learns the fundamentals of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
pioneered the vast amount of paperwork required by modern firms, which innovations such as the Hollerith punchcard machine (a predecessor to IBM) only multiplied. At DuPont, a manager was required to submit eight copies of the application form, Number 16822 (!), to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of tax policy is to share the costs of funding public goods evenly... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help... View Details
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perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors (family offices, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds). They examine portfolio... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
emissions can have a positive return on investment but hurt earnings and cash flow in the short term. Some commitments may actually result in a wealth transfer from shareholders to another stakeholder group, such as paying a "living wage"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace