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- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993-termed as High Sustainability companies-exhibit by 2009 distinct organizational processes compared to a matched sample of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and sales growth in high corruption geographic segments compared to firms with high anticorruption efforts. The net effect on valuation from sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
comparative historical analysis of consumer lending in the United States and France, I argue that national differences in the regulation of consumer credit had their roots in the historical conditions by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
that tend to feed into top MBA programs as well as in leadership positions in major organizations.” Rice found HBS to be a strange and wondrous place. Strange, he says, because, compared to most of his classmates, he had very little... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
a social mission. In what is one of the first commercial financing deals in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS, and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time there are no publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
co-workers. We argue that peers may increase an individual's likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur through two channels: by increasing the likelihood that an individual will perceive entrepreneurial opportunities, and by increasing his or her willingness to pursue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
firm-specific capital market incentives are not. These results suggest that harmonizing accounting standards may result in more comparable accounting methods and numbers, but that effective regulatory oversight will be important in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
partnerships across geography. Medical conditions represent the basic unit of analysis for thinking about value in health care. Medical conditions are patient centric, not provider centric. We use the term medical conditions, rather than... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
and scholar, Shakib Arsalan. In his letter, Basyuni Imran requested that Arsalan explain the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims of the time, compared to other nations. Furthermore, Basyuni asked Arsalan to suggest what they needed to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
then link our model to search engine market conditions: we derive comparative statics on consumer choice parameters, presenting relationships between market share, quality, and user welfare. We also analyze the prospect of joining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive interpersonal emotion, when... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
discusses the challenges of gathering cases for business education, as compared to the field of law. Donham, Wallace B., Dean’s Report, “ Graduate School of Business Administration ,” Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
the behavior of political leaders, the impact of the 9/11 attacks, and scientists’ statements about global warming and gasoline prices. Also included are studies of attitude strength that compare the causes and consequences of various... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
median between High and Low. Sustainable Or Unsustainable? Based on this analysis we were able to classify countries, for each of environmental and social performance metrics, into the following categories: In Sustainable countries—such... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
own companies. The difference is that my mindset here is project-based rather than focused on building a start-up. As accomplishments go, how would you compare launching your first product at Google to a product launch at one of your... View Details