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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu deftly chronicle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms. Forty years ago, before I went to graduate school, I was teaching high school history on Long Island. I considered myself an environmentalist even then, and so on that very first Earth... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
greater competence. August 2013 Business History Review Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
There has been much recent discussion about which objective the United States should pursue—democracy for them vs. security for us—in instances where the two seem at odds. The problem with this debate is that it stems from an imprecise articulation of View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808107 Parks Capital-Investment in US Retail, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 208-104 Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel Manufacturer, American Child Clothing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
qualitatively confirm the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton. [Duranton, G., 2007. "Urban Evolutions: The Fast, the Slow, and the Still." American Economic Review 97, 197.221]. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
attractive males were particularly persuasive, whereas physical attractiveness did not matter among female entrepreneurs. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Huang%20Kearney%20Murray_59b551a9-8218-4b84-be15-eaff58009767.pdf August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
erupted both in Congress and in the press and this ruckus led DP World to promise that it would relinquish the U.S. terminals of P&O. Also contains a brief description of Dubai and its relationship to the U.S., a discussion of issues related to port security, and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-018.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André Martínez-Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Publication:Financial History Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a bidding strategy informed by their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
harder to gain credibility with commercial messages. “The sports marketing industry is a global business.” As a result, many of the highest-paid athletes now make more money from endorsements and other commercial activities than from salary and winnings. The majority... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
unique data set on the career histories of Indian bureaucrats supports the key predictions of our framework. We find that politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance as a means of control.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace