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  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

individuals displaced by natural disasters could surge to 1.2 billion by 2050, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. Beyond the United States and France, the world witnessed the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum in 2016, a... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 28 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

erosion of the economy, which could lead to a decline in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

suggests this positive effect may stem from a desire to avoid shame. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-073.pdf Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

forbid the most popular form of life insurance (tontine insurance), limit the growth of life insurers (which included several of the nation's largest financial institutions at the time), and prevent insurance firms from owning the stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

control-ownership divergence and syndicate structure is mitigated by the lead arranger's reputation and lending relationship with the borrowing firm as well as by strong shareholder rights and good credit information sharing systems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

economy. Over the last decade, we have seen the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) involvement in corporate governance grow significantly as a shareholder and through political and legal interventions.While it is not correct at all to assume... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

of the design of crowdfunding platforms can therefore be understood as attempts to deal with attendant "free-rider" problems in motivating contributions. Reviewing institutional features of today's crowdfunding, we clarify that... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

Brookings Institution Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/Economics_of_Housing_Finance_Reform_Brookings.pdf Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

board accountability through greater transparency in decision making, more representative vote allocation, or better parliamentary scrutiny. In other words, although civil society efforts have led to some gains in accountability with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

an expectation that differences will be set aside in order to advance with common purpose toward a larger goal—getting the task at hand done right. Common Ground This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

United States. But because most American corporations are currently designed and mandated to fulfill dA [the drive to acquire] exclusively, both top management and shareholders might object to incurring any costs in Mexico beyond those... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

plans are more likely to hire a consultant. Lastly, say-on-pay voting patterns suggest shareholders view positively the advice consultants provide but only when consultants do not provide other services. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of Bahamian investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

  PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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