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- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
sources. Recently, the insertion into this world of business models incorporating advanced management expertise have demonstrated that commercial success is possible while significantly improving access to these basic services for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
shareholders as a category are not well positioned to guide corporate decisions or to discipline management. They also discuss problems in two other roles shareholders play with respect to corporations, as a source of funds and as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with executives... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
telecommunications, power, water, etc.) will create new investment opportunities, not to mention lessons on what kinds of businesses should and should not be managed by the private sector. Demand for infrastructure investment is especially high in developing countries.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55402 The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets By: Bernstein, Shai, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper explores the creation and evolution of new stock exchanges around the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
financial institutions deemed too big to fail already have a huge marketplace advantage - hundreds of billions of federal bailout funds unavailable to smaller firms in financial trouble, says Moss. "That gives big, complex firms a... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
major art institution gives access to cultural, symbolic, and social resources that can add value to and differentiate its services. For the museum, the partnership supports its international expansion in terms of audiences and acquisitions of art from regions of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
in the world where factor costs are favorable. This paper re-examines this assumption and suggests that not all manufacturing is highly mobile. We suggest that manufacturing sectors should be viewed along a continuum from highly mobile to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we are seeing multiple players... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:Chap. 1 in The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity Report 2009. Globalization of Alternative Investments: Working Papers Volume 2, 1-23. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2009. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
like other Marwari, were traders who after World War I transitioned into manufacturing, including sugar manufacturing and steel rolling. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/807028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
undertaken to analyze the financial returns of a set of early stage social-purpose companies that had received funding from a discrete group of individual investors. Q: How did the team determine how the companies had performed as a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
philanthropy, later incorporating such ideas into their organizational vision and values. Mexico's Bimbo Group provides a clear example; this world leader in the food industry, a multinational corporation with operations in 16 countries,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
from World War II Internment Firm Trade By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
companies in the United States and Europe, divided the work up into small pieces (called microwork), and then sent it to delivery centers in developing regions of the world for completion through a web-based interface. Different from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
launch of its line of EVs, the first commercially available, highway-safe cars in the world that produced zero greenhouse emissions. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808070 WL Ross &... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
traditional company. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Victors---Spoils---Born-O/an/415701-MMC-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-016 USAA in the Digital World No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
around the world today are seeking to promote entrepreneurial and venture capital activity, employing a variety of "stage setting" and direct strategies. These steps are sensible, given the historical record and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace