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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
to gain much traction and proposes measures that will better protect the rights of property owners. We asked Wells to discuss his research and experiences representing host governments in such negotiations, and what international managers... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
algorithm. The nowcasting results are more accurate for denser, wealthier, and more educated ZIP codes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53271 International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-engagement, Re-imagination, and Experimentation By: Kirby, William C., and Marjk van der Wende Abstract—This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings with their medical providers in real time. A year and a half after launching the program, the health system’s internal startup, innovationOchsner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
enriching," he continued. "The moments of reflection we shared by internally discussing our roots, our evolution, the place where we are and our future, all had fundamental value as well." The case protagonists were then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor and senior associate dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. “That raises the question, who is exercising control in these corporations?” In traditional mutual funds,... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
are not guaranteed, and poor performing outcomes are also likely. Thus, if a firm has a clear idea of what it wants and knows how to do it, it may be better to do it internally instead of enabling external innovators to think outside the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(New York Times, 2001), while Former President Clinton used his "bully pulpit" to urge corporations to attend to social problems (New York Times, 1996) and later advocated that minimum labor standards be a part of international... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
"Wei Ge" (Great Brother), arguing that the term was not a well-known trademark in China. With two lawsuits related to intellectual property rights now pending in China, Pfizer wondered whether trade politics or the rule of law... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for over two centuries. But an... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Author:Malcolm S. Salter Abstract Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
transacting in what feels awfully like a market. Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market Author:Debora Spar Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 3 (summer 2006): 195-208 Abstract The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne