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  • 26 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 26

Case 216-023 Models of Endowment Management: King's College, Cambridge One of the University of Cambridge's Colleges evaluates different asset management options for its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University chose business and government ethics and a good infrastructure for attracting business; while a third panelist selected civil society. Discussion and debate ensued among the five... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

turnarounds. Thus, Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly argued that “firms must pay close attention both to their resource endowment and to the ability of their managers to extract value." The tale of three coaches Consider the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

conference at HBS that Ramanna is organizing with McArthur University Professor Rebecca M. Henderson will dive into these themes and other ideas to develop and clarify reporting standards. For the conference, Henderson and Ramanna teamed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Treasury. This demand has peaked recently, as inflationary pressures are building in the economy. Not surprisingly, institutional investors with long-term spending needs that grow with inflation (such as university View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2012... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions for future research. 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

described as a vulture capitalist, now gets a serious hearing when he urges Apple to make better use of its billions in cash or Dell to improve the terms of a management buyout. Today, university endowments... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

Relationship with Wal-Mart (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 907-013 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907013 Yale University Investments Office: August... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

also been a strong advocate for the wider spread of the concept. Martin Bruncko, a 2003 graduate of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and the chief economic adviser to Finance Minister Mikloš, has traveled extensively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

Finance, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Abdelal discusses the rise and diminishment of capital controls in the 1900s, the coming influence of China and India on global financial markets, and a conspiracy theory that U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

labor between innovative new entrants and industry incumbents, endowed with complementary assets, is common in many industries. Such settings are distinct because new entrants have the additional option to sell their innovation in a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

  PublicationsThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Authors:Noam Wasserman Publication:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Princeton University Press, in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D. Quinn Mills... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Strategic Management Expertise? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao Publication:Boston University Law Review 90, no. 4 (August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Abstract This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

promote the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Reebok has since engaged in other activities with Amnesty International, and human rights has become a core value in the company. Before strategic fit can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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