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Bibliography - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
printer-friendly Selected Bibliography Alvin, Louis Joseph. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jean, Jérôme & Antoine Wierix. Brussels: T.J.I. Arnold, 1866. Antwerp. Commission de la Bourse. Historique de la bourse de fonds publics et de change d'Anvers,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall Street outcasts, are now respectable View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Interplay of Structure and Behavior: How System Dynamics Can Explain and Change Outcomes by Gender or Social Category Panel: Backlash and the Double Bind Robert Livingston , Northwestern University Is Agentic Backlash Inevitable?: A... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. Companies look to hire athletes whose image mirrors their own corporate brand. Sports View Details
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R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
their previous history and their general standing here, that they are regarded here as a good house. Are estimated from 300 to 400m$ [$300,000 - $400,000] & in last report 500m$ [$500,000]. Are financial agents for state of Georgia & are... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development of this ecosystem requires a network of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
PublicationsOvercoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a relational theory of how change View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
Working PapersSome Neglected Axioms in Fair Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
bankrupt. Consequently many of the plaintiffs turned their attention to Walmart and sued the retailer as a causal agent in the deaths and injuries. Given that more than one party was involved in Walmart's sale of unsafe gas cans, who is... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? To achieve success as a business leader and agent of empowerment, I knew I had to learn valuable new skills. My experiences as a junior banker, young entrepreneur, and novice service... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environments, edited by A. Dinar, J. Albiac and J. Sanchez-Soriano. Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, 2008 Abstract This paper considers environments in which several agents... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience
by N. Smith, June 10, 1793. 22.5 x 17.5 cm F gb4 x Gresham is known as the founder of the Royal Exchange and of Gresham College, London. As the royal financial agent in Antwerp, he was shrewd in discharging the debts of the crown, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
School, discusses his findings in this interview. Benko (HBS MBA '89), is Deloitte Consulting's global e-business leader. Lagace: A company's project portfolio, according to you and your co-author, Cathleen Benko, is a significant agent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace