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Commencement 2018 Address | About

return on investment and what drives sustained competitiveness. But our meetings also gave us a window into our cultural differences. The people we met wondered if we thought lesser of them because they carried guns and loved to hunt. They described how View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

changed the accounting standards of various country-pairs, we examine how two sources of changes in accounting distance-(i) change due to IFRS adoption of the investee and (ii) change due to IFRS adoption in the investor's country-affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

can both strategy and execution be consistently superior? How can they support a collective culture yet enable high potentials to thrive as individuals? How can the strategy be global and local at the same time? And how can its policies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

the job, having access to independent, high-quality research from outside sources can make a real difference both in developing good policies and in getting broad-based support for their implementation.” Researchers and Regulators The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Past Issues - Alumni

Records, with ambitions of preserving the local music scene and supporting the careers of indie artists Keeping the Faith A new course investigates the powerful connections between belief, spirituality, and leadership Complete Table of... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

changes on jobs, tax base, and blight as you lose thousands and thousands of stores around the country?” Q: Are some malls still working well? Alvarez: Some you see succeeding are experience-based malls, ones that have restaurants, movie theaters, and other View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

third adopt a modified form of the recommendations. However, global partner surveys report that 99 percent of FIELD partners want to work with FIELD again. The reason: Their local management teams enjoy the collaborative process of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

the situation where waste becomes a source of profit, our research shows that it is almost never optimal to maintain the same operating regime as under the old paradigm where waste was a cost burden and merely convert the existing waste... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

the book is also a contribution to thinking about competitiveness in general. In one part of the book, you and your coauthors write: "What really ails Japan has to do with the nation's deeply ingrained attitudes toward competition." What do you think is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Diversity and Community

commitments to diversity as seriously as our obligations to our customers and shareholders." In accepting Levi Strauss's award, Haas noted that the company "has always tried to be a source of positive change in the communities in which we... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

  Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

organizational theory of the multinational firm states that foreignness is a liability to be overcome, in particular that being a foreigner "unembedded" in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Departments | Employment

and products that: help faculty develop courses to achieve their learning objectives; provide in-depth research support from our information experts and global network; help faculty, students, staff, and alumni to access and use world class and often unique information... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

decoupling of the sources of value in education programs—on the future of executive education. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54353 Harvard Business School Case 518-046 Molino Cañuelas: Serving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne