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- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22
latter's poor behavior in other relationships is unlikely to have much marginal effect. We test the resulting hypotheses by examining how a venture capital firm's reputation for unreliability, triggered by repeated withdrawals from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate transactions traditionally regulated at the local level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
(A): U.S. Treasuries in November 2008 Ryan D. Taliaferro and Stephen BlythHarvard Business School Case 211-049 Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
Segel, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Andrew TerrisHarvard Business School Note 211-022 This note seeks to provide an overview of farmland investing, the investment thesis behind View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1344068 The Pursuit of Power Corrupts: Investing in Outside Options Motivates Opportunism in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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MBA Experience - Leadership
and seniors over whom the manager has no formal authority. The intermediate modules look at successful leaders in action to see how they: Develop a vision of the future. Align... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
implemented in the SEC's August 2010 rule. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-052.pdf Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
staff, and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical research game, with approximately $1.4 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
deferred a lot of gratification. The students in my Leadership and Happiness class are very interested in the following questions: What should I... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date, however, the prior academic literature has not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
“Most [business scholars] would agree that our primary duties include teaching our students and generating new knowledge in our research,” writes Toffel. “But the lack of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
"styles"—investing in particular regions and industries. We found no evidence of performance persistence stemming from a differential ability to select or govern portfolio companies. Rather, our... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
sustainability of the natural environment and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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South Asia - Global
a hallmark of Harvard Business School - was held for the first time focused on doctoral students from business schools across India. Hosted in Mumbai on March 20-21, the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
specific type of "risk talk" as a legitimate, cross-functional language of business. Thereby the risk-management function may be most successful when it resists... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
companies rank innovation among their top three priorities. But not all firms benefit from their investment in innovation. July 2025 Case Elon Musk, 2025: The Master of Big... View Details