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  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

rights, and legal liability of companies and executives for violating human rights. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309097 DreamWorks SKG Inc.: To Distribute or Not to Distribute? Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

commissions hurt sales. If managers must retain a cap, they should set it as high as possible to avoid reducing reps' incentives. Although overly complicated compensation systems have their downsides, research has found that a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

extent the consequence of the legal system nations created or inherited decades or hundreds of years ago. Despite the seemingly historical nature of this explanation, most of the body of work supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

clear-cut business strategy for its research laboratory, and, in turn, many of PARC's technologies did not fit into Xerox's strategic objectives. For instance, the Alto's ability to adapt to large customers' computer systems was... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

Viceira Publication:Chapter 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract The U.S. retirement View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

entrepreneurs eventually found themselves caught by a system that bit back—by markets that reasserted their old ways or governments that outraced the technological frontier and claimed it for themselves. The new world in these cases fell... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2024
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 11 Apr 2018
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Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

systemic problem. That’s something we haven’t seen before now.” The recent rash of high-profile complaints in the news is undoubtedly sending shivers down the spines of business executives nationwide, as many come to grips with the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508046 Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills Harvard Business School Case 308-068 This case focuses on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

fiscal 2019, the School’s total IT investment grew by $5 million, or 6 percent, from fiscal 2018 to $87 million. In addition to implementing new MBA classroom video and student engagement platforms during the year, the School made substantial faculty research computing... View Details
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in Northern Italy as a term of contempt for the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015

Assessments University assessments cover essential services provided to HBS by the University, including payroll and benefits administration, processing of accounts receivable and payable, and legal services. The amount charged to HBS in... View Details
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LCA, the course will refine students’ understanding of how law affects all aspects of business, and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

while more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

as complicated local etiquette, obscured decision-making processes, and heavy reliance on interpersonal relationships instead of legal instruments all add to the complexities of Sino-foreign business negotiations and can make the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace