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  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

  Working PapersThe Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters Authors:Charles Cohen and Eric D. Werker Abstract Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

  Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

  Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

  Working PapersRecognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making Authors:Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien Abstract In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

as joint degree students, sharing insights from their time before and during the MBA program. Swanee Golden (MBA/MPP 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Princeton, New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I View Details
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

and free cash flow. The emphasis on cash helps explain how firms have changed their supply chains and how working capital has become a significant financial benefit to major firms ranging from Apple to Walmart. Similarly, emphasizing cash... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

policy that reflects Americans' nuanced, evolving sense of fairness. They are a part of what makes our economy, and our society, work. And that knowledge might even make writing that check on April 15th a bit less painful. This article was originally published on The... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

department. If every intern would receive an offer, 18 percent chose to work only with men. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/SEi2B3ULIyrEzqL6Rxbz][/div] The researchers invited 278 Black participants to consider the same scenario but... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

  Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Kiran Gandhi

don’t plan on working for a bank or for Ideo after school, but I want to apply the design skills I learn to the music industry in the long term. What might people find surprising about you? That I was a math major in college. I guess... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

Conceptually, strategy could not be simpler. Once you start thinking about how to create value—that’s when it gets interesting. We get to be endlessly imaginative. Strategy poses little challenge for our conceptual thinking. But it presents the most exciting of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

Edmondson: Leadership will engage people to work together creatively   I hope we will come to learn that hiding bad news is never a good idea. That will mean recommitting ourselves to mastering the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

“Larger companies are rarely seen as fountains of innovation,” says Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano. Yet scale, if properly exploited, can still be an engine for transformation. In his new book Creative Construction: The DNA... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

File-Sharing and Copyright

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Koleman Strumpf; Technology; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

political, and economic times. Americans throughout history have embraced the American Dream, which proclaims that through hard work and perseverance anyone can be successful, regardless of class, caste, religion, race, or ethnicity.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

effect on any of these outcomes, we find that the system had a significantly positive effect on the quality of creative work when it was more frequently accessed. It also had a positive effect on the quality... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

Book: http://store.elsevier.com/Handbook-of-Safeguarding-Global-Financial-Stability/isbn-9780123978752/   Working PapersLeading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick's Conception of Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne