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  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

accelerate the decline of independents by increasing the attractiveness of smaller in-town store formats for retail chains. The causal impact of planning regulation is estimated using variation in local political control across the U.K.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

Business School Supplement 707-020 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707020 Global Climate Change and Emissions Trading Harvard Business School Case 707-015 Global climate change is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

out in a way that is consistent with how the new leader plans to govern, illustrates his or her values, and signals some of his or her later moves. It’s pretty demoralizing to live inside a situation needing a turnaround. To renew people’s energy and give them hope for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

absolutely not. To be sure, companies in developing countries face serious challenges, including political instability, volatile exchange rates, and an underdeveloped physical infrastructure. More critically, they must contend with three... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

opportunistic traders are local non-senior insiders, who come from geographically concentrated, poorly governed firms. Lastly, opportunistic traders are significantly more likely to have SEC enforcement action taken against them and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

U.S. population, robustness of these results across demographic traits and political views suggests that a large share of the American public holds views inconsistent with standard welfarist objectives. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

  PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

quantity, and method of distribution account for the observed variation in IRI within stores. Store-specific factors such as the density and variety of inventory observed at each store account for the variation in IRI across stores. Dynamic Capabilities at IBM: Driving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on some parallels with View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

accounting are very "sticky," suggesting there will need to be a strong set of actions and incentives to get us to truly comparable global accounting. The insights from the body of literature I just mentioned are important, but... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

the supply of capital create the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest real option value. We propose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53388 Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi Abstract—Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide. A description of government policies since 1994 enables... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

increase of 285% of a standard deviation in income. We also present different estimates of adaptation across subgroups. For example, we find that those on the right (left) of the political spectrum adapt to status (income) but not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

management issues were not. So we took action on a series of things to move this along. There were really four prongs of the approach that we talked about. One was research. The next was course development, actually creating courses. The... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

firm based on social and environmental metrics. We find that the political system, followed by the labor and education system, and the cultural system are the most important NBS categories of institutions that impact CSP. Interestingly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://hbr.org/2012/01/when-one-business-model-isnt-enough/ar/1 Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing? Authors:Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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