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  • 29 Apr 2025
  • News

Challenge Accepted

different areas, and one of them was the chairman of Merrill Lynch International. I said, no, it’s time for me to go, because eventually I knew that I wanted to be a larger fish in a smaller pond. So I was offered a job at an investment... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure requirements we find no change in the earnings quality of client firms. In sum, data drawn from an earlier time period suggest that auditors' reputational incentives, possible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy? By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Maya Reddy Abstract—In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India were redrawn for the first View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

"treated" with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when deciding on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

  Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

chosen to designate an individual as a business leader (i.e., CEO), regardless of specific title, if he or she was regarded as the primary and, in some cases, sole leader in setting the company's direction, allocating resources, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of modest means, mutual funds would... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by providing both enough time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many innovations in management science.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

high-performing salespeople. In addition, we find no effects in product returns with regard to a change in quota frequency. With quotas set over shorter time horizons, the high-performing salespeople focus mainly on low-ticket products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

with those who allocate resources might affect innovation outcomes and the matching of resources to individuals within a distributed organization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52163 Can CEO Activism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and drawing on the latest research in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell Abstract—We quantify the link between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

focus on educational program innovations, and other initiatives, in fiscal 2023, the School continued to execute its pedagogical mission: to educate the next generation of global leaders who make a difference in the world. For the first View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up takes time. Given the complexity... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman