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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
avoidance at portfolio firms as an additional source of economic value. We document that PE-backed portfolio firms engage in significantly more nonconforming tax planning and have lower marginal tax rates than other private firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
governance in the important emerging economy of India turn critically on whether one does a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance. We find in contrast to prior views that Indian business groups are not, on average, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
history remains open to multiple methodologies and new questions, and is not crippled by the orthodoxies that constrain research agendas in so many other disciplines. This open-architecture structure lets business historians engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
will use their knowledge and the practice of their work to benefit others rather than engage in self-dealing or self-interest. A minimal step would be to have students take a Hippocratic Oath equivalent that would ensure on some level... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
consumers? RS: It's important to drive home the optimistic side of all this. I think that, you know, profit margins and revenue predictions aside, we are engaged in this really thrilling age for business. And that doesn't mean just... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Schumpeter is remembered for the notion that the individual entrepreneur, engaging in a kind of "creative destruction" that continually revolutionizes and revitalizes the economic structure, is the essence of capitalism. Conceived as an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
lead the program. Today, it’s part of the fabric of the School. “We have developed a very rich portfolio of courses, cases, projects, and field studies to engage students,” says Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing. Last... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
offering essential workers the breaks at no charge. “Our breaks allow parents to get things done while their children engage in 1:1 virtual and interactive science, engineering, culture, and wellness experiences with our Bundlist... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
continue executing the School's mission successfully: "We have been committed for more than seventy years," he said, "to a model of education in which we bring the world into the classroom - we immerse our students in the context of business and View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
civilians' support for the opposition, who failed to protect them. Instead we show that such violence increases parochial forms of solidarity and social engagement within the refugee community. Altogether this suggests that, when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with their work, performed their tasks more effectively, and were also more likely to return to work when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
boundaries of these learning behaviors. We find that effective virtual teams, like co-located teams, engage in both reflective and action-oriented learning behaviors. However, the virtual context highlights distinct participation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
That in the 2012 election in Massachusetts when it was Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, and when it was Elizabeth Warren versus Scott Brown. So you look at those elections, you think that everybody would vote. Something like 28% of college students voted in that... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
of the way in which newcomers can change the rules of competitive engagement in a global industry. It also poses the question of how incumbents can respond, especially when constrained by regulation, tradition, and different capabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
made her the perfect blank slate. After agreeing to take 20 boxes, she called a few days later and asked for more. Now the store sells an average of 100 boxes each week. Like any good entrepreneur, Viana engages a man standing near the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
weekend to get the NYSE operating again, Lhota and others at City Hall engaged in frequent conversations with the White House and Washington about financial aid and other assistance, with Lhota acting as City Hall's liaison to the state's... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
on a quiet Friday afternoon, the atmosphere immediately becomes more lively. Heading for a table filled with friends, she is quickly engaged in animated conversation. It is this energy and good cheer that have helped make Ma an effective... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Case 809-024 Geoff Smart, founder and CEO of ghSMART & Co., wanted to build ghSMART into the #1 management-assessment firm for CEOs and investors. However, he had just received two pieces of very bad news: the demise of an existing project and the loss of a $1... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
today in the nonprofit sector. Back then, our clients were being asked to make significant investments in IT, so of course they asked, what's my return? As a result I got very engaged in how one collects and presents information to show... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna