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  • 23 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose ethnic and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

  Working PapersThe Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Authors:Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner Abstract Reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) have received increased public scrutiny but attracted little systematic study. We collect a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309065 Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education Harvard Business School Case 309-105 Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

  Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

  Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

locally grown coca fibers for the manufacture of head rests and seats. With the help of Brazilian NGOs and the U.S. government's Inter-American Foundation, he found a community organization called POEMA in the impoverished northern part of the country near Belem where... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

makeups support more chain restaurants, but that other factors, including suburban sprawl and public transit commuters, also have some impact. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

Primary Education in the Himalayan Region By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England, corrected View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

post-secondary education to support and expand areas like career and technical training, and encouraging expansion of research and development in the US. There are a lot of areas of common ground. And there are a lot of opportunities to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

skilled workforce, an educated populace, vibrant local suppliers, basic rule of law, and so on. Historically, American businesses invested in these resources deeply, and that helped to build many of America's strengths. Then, in a world... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

financial system The state of trade Inequality and populism Migration Environmental degradation Failure of the rule of law The state of public health and general education The rise of state capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

such as performance-based promotion. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

number of for-profits that are focusing on problems in areas such as education and welfare-to-work? According to Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Philanthropy Allen Grossman, the answers to these kinds of questions must take into... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds for hospitals, government agencies, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

investors; they evolved toward more friendly approaches. Many countries created new incentives for investors and built investment promotion agencies to attract new companies. The causes were several: Better educated and more experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

together to support community health There will be more recognition of the interconnected systems that account for the need for care, access to care, and care outcomes. The availability of jobs and their safety, housing density and quality, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

  Publications April 2015 Harvard Business Review How to Really Motivate Salespeople By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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