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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
South Africa. He noted that his country's aim is to have a stable, democratic government like those found in the United States and Europe, but he presented the tradeoffs that must be made before such a goal can be achieved. For instance, he pointed out the fine line... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As Indonesia in 2007 was designing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
1981), John L. Orcutt, and Paul C. Remus (Wiley Financial) Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid (MBA 1994) (Del Rey) Vanished in the Dunes (A Hamptons Mystery) by Allan Retzky (MBA 1962) (Oceanview Publishing) The Surpassing! Life: 52 Practical Ways to Achieve View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership, but they’ve made great progress... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Foundation did a good bit of work in creating the Meth Project back in 2005, and that was created by Tom Siebel. Tom Siebel was a marketing guy who had been the number two person at Oracle and had created his own company. And he said, I'm... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law or are incorporated in civil codes. But, as this note will show, fiduciary... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms, such as partnerships, played... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically changed the laws governing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this success was achieved. Heroes Wanted: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out by Rodney D. Bullard (AMP 187, 2014) Harvest House Publishers With all the hardships and unmet needs in the world, it’s difficult to believe one View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
http://hbr.org/product/collective-genius-the-art-and-practice-of-leading-innovation/an/13296E-KND-ENG?referral=01240 August 2013 Harvard Business Law Review Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Evaluating the Impact of the Argentina Ruling By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the ILO treaty regime and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
characteristics and fixed effects. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16294 Law and Finance c. 1900 Authors:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between managerial discretion and future performance. Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016 By: Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons Abstract—... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
and electronic payment technology to assess the health of a business. Traditional lenders generally focus on both the small business owners' personal credit history and key metrics about the borrower's business, such as industry-specific... View Details
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2025 | Working Knowledge
a century ago. Drawing on newly linked longitudinal datasets and vivid personal stories, the book presents a nuanced and optimistic view of how immigrants and their children gradually become part of the American fabric. This is an... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry Shere pointed out, "attempts... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
accounts sparked an interest in law. She applied for the joint JD/MBA program at Harvard Law and Harvard Business School and was undaunted by the prospect of a challenging workload. “I was attracted to the content that each school... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
a national second-opinion service it has to scramble to find staff doctors who have certifications in all the states even though the clinic is a preeminent medical center. There are a striking number of other examples such as this where View Details