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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
work with the poorer countries ...—Michael Porter When we put these pieces together, therefore, for the medium to long term, we ranked very high the countries that are demonstrating a capacity for sustained innovation. We look at the underlying View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the prevalence of implicit voice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
transactional, and integrative—although these stages are not necessarily linear, nor does every company move through each stage. What are the key factors that force (or encourage) companies to move from one stage to another? Austin:... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
does NASA move up to this higher level? A: There are three areas that benefit from program management. The first is related to infrastructure investments that are common to several projects, for example, like navigation software. There is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
including a full or partial sale of the firm. Students must assess the firm's strategy including the key risks and success factors associated with this industry; evaluate basic financial reports; assess the firm's past performance;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
innovation in this industry. We consider the relative importance of key factors such as geographic and within-firm capabilities and the role of financial resources. We find that location in a region of concentrated expertise and prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
particular social welfare decisions. Current research: "Is Brazil on the Path of Sustainable Growth and Development?" Laura Alfaro Alfaro: "I want to look at competition for foreign direct investment through the eyes on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
risk and return are assessed in different parts of the brain, thereby questioning theories regarding expected utility on which a great deal of decision theory has been based up to now. Thus, according to this research, different qualities of, say, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries, U.S. Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we examine how activating one’s social network can contribute to the impact of academic research and what factors lead researchers to utilize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
of Campbell, Viceira, and White (2003), updating their evidence, and reviews the evidence of Campbell, Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Viceira (2010) in detail. Consistent with the intuition that an integrated capital market is one in which there is a common discount View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Wagaroo. The initial iteration of Wagaroo was based entirely on trying to develop an effective matching algorithm. Prospective owners filled out surveys, indicating preferences about factors such as size, breed, energy level, age, and... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne