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- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
New York office or local branches. In 1849, Tappan sold the agency to an associate, Benjamin Douglass, who in 1859 ceded control of the firm to his brother-in-law, Robert Graham Dun. That same year, coded reference books with condensed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
topics, even controlling for their country of origin and gender. For example, CEOs who tend to be more expressive devote more attention to topics related to society at large and avoid topics related to the government. By contrast, dour... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
carefully controlled propaganda apparatus, considered how to rebuild the magazine without its star editor. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112028-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
individuals who control household investments do to make sure their holdings are in financial alignment with their goals, and who can they turn to for advice? Are traditional investment advisers equipped to handle these kinds of TDA... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
exercise ultimate control over the corporation, university business education lost the grand narrative that had sustained it from its beginnings. The loss of this historical metanarrative of management as a profession — a narrative that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the birth control pill." The lesson... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
focusing on university governance, funding, faculty policy, admissions systems, and internationalization. It concludes by looking at the tightening of ideological control in universities in 2013 and 2014 and reflects on the potential for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
diagnosis in 2003. The indoor cycling event had grown rapidly and increased fundraising from $250,000 in 2007 to $4.7 million in 2011. After the event's second year, Jen and David made the decision to hand over control to MSKCC, partner... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
other sources of entrepreneurial influence: we find that peer influences are strongest for those who have less exposure to entrepreneurship in other aspects of their lives. Family Control of Firms and Industries Authors: Belén Villalonga... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
projects are typically the ones where customization is most critical. But there are ways for teams to handle this situation. The team leader can manage, and even leverage, pressure by designing meetings with controls in place—built-in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
decision to bring in a COO, transition him to CEO, and assume the position of Chairperson. Also describes communication and control challenges faced when Zhang moves to Los Angeles with her family, and tries to remain involved in her... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
women, about 64 percent of the ones who were in the industry in 1995 were no longer in the industry in 2000. Only 33 percent of the male control group exited the industry in the same time frame. There have been some efforts to introduce... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
age of innovation. There are people all over the country in universities and colleges who are actually doing research and conducting randomized control trials to determine what solutions work and what solutions don't work. And that's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
to her corner office and its view of midtown Manhattan. “Take your time. You lose control of your life as you move up the ladder. Most people think it’s the opposite.” That said, Moore worries that the leadership positions in society... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrating its control in the hands of a single member of the firm, the three founders agreed to create a series of overlapping funds. Each general partner could then take responsibility for running one of them, with input from his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that I don’t have complete control of. The notion that there would be very intelligent people doing very complicated things six and a half days a week, and I would come in on a periodic basis and tell them how to do it better, I don’t... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
when an independent director is more likely to dissent and who is more likely to dissent. Controlling for firm and board characteristics, we find that dissent is significantly correlated with breakdown of social ties between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
designed as modular systems. Finally, it analyzes in detail the strategy of capturing value by maintaining exclusive control of an essential module in an open system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-040.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel