Transformative Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor of the simple and often low flat tax. Laura Alfaro:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results provide strong support for the predictions of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

presumes that only women have a gender. By studying men and masculinity, we were able to highlight that men too have a gender and to examine how organizations influence the way men enact their gender. Q: Can you explain the "image of invulnerability" and its... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

for each patient, developing bundled prices for the full care cycle, integrating care across separate facilities, expanding geographic reach, and building an enabling IT platform. The transformation to value-based health care is well... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

vexing. The first, which Mike emphasized, is that there are so many related elements. The second is that the lag times involved are very long. Investments in improving K-12 education have an impact a decade, two decades, from now. That... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Rover and many others. The Tata Group is a great example of a company that transformed itself from a successful company in a closed, local environment to a fairly aggressive player that has fostered innovation and globalization in almost... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the deposit-taking institution, your neighborhood bank, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

decades of his life. Q: You spend a lot of time in the book talking about all of this—the impact of these early years on his middle and later years. A: The child is the father of the man and, you know, Andy Grove is the last CEO who will... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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