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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
shareholders used to protect themselves by examining the dividend policy and governance of over 800 publicly traded companies at the beginning of the 1880s. We assess the importance of these mechanisms by estimating their impact on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? Associate Professor Maurer looks at how modern US involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40% higher than Britain’s. How did that happen? Unlike most of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
make up. Make use of your assets and liabilities to the maximum." 16 The professor even instituted a lecture for wives of students in the Manufacturing class, in which he outlined his beliefs on the role spouses in the postwar era could... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
than address specific policy proposals, HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, who has written extensively on leadership, sees a problem with the larger system within which boards and executives function. Writing in the Washington Post, he and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during three periods in the postwar period: first, with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... "The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer bill simply cannot be the cure for the disease it spawned." Rather than address specific policy proposals, HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
make up. Make use of your assets and liabilities to the maximum." 16 The professor even instituted a lecture for wives of students in the Manufacturing class, in which he outlined his beliefs on the role spouses in the postwar era could... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in interest rates cause bond prices to fall. This loss is largest for bonds of longest... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
arising from a natural experiment: the introduction of an Illinois policy that enabled communities to select electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population shortage that meant cheap labor was running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life. Sail the World: Everything You Need to Know to Circumnavigate the Globe by Erick A. Reickert (MBA 1965) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reickert explains the whole... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
other factor for the great influence it has enjoyed in American society—have changed significantly from the era when the earliest schools were founded up until the present day. Thus the institution that came to be the major influence on business education worldwide in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni
traditional ways of doing things, improving people’s lives, and setting new standards in their fields. Complete Table of Contents September 2010 Leslie Gold RX for Change Health-care reform is more than a policy debate — it’s a managerial... View Details