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- March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
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The Vancouver 2010 Olympics
By: Anita Elberse, Catherine Anthony and Joshua Callahan
It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member of the Board of Directors for Vancouver's Organizing Committee (VANOC), is keen to ensure the Games will have a... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Sports; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Vancouver
Elberse, Anita, Catherine Anthony, and Joshua Callahan. "The Vancouver 2010 Olympics." Harvard Business School Case 507-049, March 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published proceedings of the rst Journal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
R&D-intensive firms react to negative shocks to their existing products? We explore this question using detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
essential skill to master for creating an edge in the innovation economy is the ability to tell stories, to motivate others to join you on an unknown journey. What are the key ideas behind learning to be a storyteller? Kanter: Effective leaders are storytellers. While... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
a bit of listening and data mining on social to get a feel for public sentiment. Nike can track whether people are talking about the company in relation to sweatshops, how expensive its products are, or if... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
incremental shifts towards sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book's distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016
Abstract—This article looks back at the publication and influence of Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles published in 1913. It surveys some of the key ideas in the book and explains the reasons why it resonated with a variety of people,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
consistent assessment, this article provides a framework to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of compliance programs. I present empirical models that use data collected from compliance initiatives—including whistleblower hotlines,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations can reduce competition among merging hospitals for inclusion in insurers' networks, leading to higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996 to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10
and news following insider trades, I also find a negative association between returns around filings of insider sales and SOX. Overall, the evidence suggests that the prompt public disclosures about insider transactions mandated by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54087 February 2018 Management Science Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that leverages emerging opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne