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  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

the general Buenos Aires population, in spite of the large differences. On the Pricing of Intermediated Risks: Theory and Application to Catastrophe Reinsurance Authors:K. A. Froot and P. O'Connell Periodical:Journal of Banking and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various executive education offerings. Throughout our work, we seek to bridge the gap between the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

effect is also greater for firms with financial restatements, especially for those involved in fraudulent misreporting. In addition, we find that institutional ownership weakens the relationship between the insider excess control rights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

they’re not hiding. They’re at major institutions around the country—some of them at historically black colleges but others at state universities. DARDEN: Roy and I went on our first recruitment trip to mainly white schools—Stanford, UC... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

institute laws regarding the minimum percentage of women on a company's board, while research suggests that women enter executive positions earlier and work harder than male counterparts. Other topics include a discussion of a female... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

that future work should develop more precise and context-specific theories to help guide research and practice in disparate task and industry domains. Working paper not available. Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.’ E.O. Wilson This course examines 3 recently developed ‘godlike technologies’ - artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and synthetic biology- that have passed... View Details
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

approach across multiple business units. Social Entrepreneurs as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Sekem Authors:Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair, and Julie Battilana Publication:In Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

co-application of a given pair of researchers by 75%. The findings suggest that matching between scientists is subject to considerable friction, even in the case of geographically proximate scientists working in the same institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

rationalizes contracts that give depositors the right to obtain funds on demand even when depositors intend to use these funds for consumption in the future. This is explained by depositor overoptimism regarding their own ability to collect funds in a run. Capitalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff Publication: In Institutional Foundations of Public Finance, edited by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel Shaviro. Harvard University Press, 2009 Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent valuable code. Our evidence both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

associated biomarkers, placing an emphasis on the factors affecting their development, pricing, and access. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52453 Theory of Machine: When Do People Rely on Algorithms? By:... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

The Wise Men

Professors Williams, Lodge, Goldberg, and Salmon, we gain a behind-the-scenes look at the School during its crucial middle decades and further benefit from their accumulated wisdom as to future directions for the institution they helped... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

offenders—and some institutional features (such as bad prison conditions) convert ideological differences across judges (to which detainees are randomly matched) into very large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully. Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development by Michael Kaufman (MBA 1994) Univ. of Chicago Press Work hard in school,... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace