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  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long time, although changes in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic transitions: (1) increasing external focus, (2) moving to greater openness, (3) focusing on enabling interactions, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

a series of static comparisons that reveal the impact of a change in one determinant of an option's price while holding other factors constant. The business setting involves a mutual fund board considering the initiation of an option... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

global footprint, the community itself changed. Since Palepu joined the faculty in the early 1980s, the percentage of faculty born outside the United States has risen from 19 percent to 42 percent. And the percentage of students holding... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books How High Can You Soar? Eight Powers to Lift You to Your Full Potential by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51, 2018) Beyond Words Publishing What is holding you back from your biggest dreams? What steps can you... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

energy. Bulletin editor Dan Morrell spoke with Kortenhorst about his career path and how the world can make renewables a reality. READ MORE Dan Morrell: Jules, tell me a little bit about what Rocky Mountain Institute does, and what your... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

Baily, 26-65. Brookings Institution Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/0211_home_mortgages_pozen/0211_home_mortgages_pozen.pdf Most Likely to Succeed:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than fourfold. We find moreover that NPEs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

Runjiao XuHarvard Business School Case 211-107 In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main business segments-property development,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

fills this void by explaining how a country's institutional differences, cultural considerations, and personal characteristics can affect the role that entrepreneurs play in its economy. Developing an understanding of the origins of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat Nonetheless, we View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • 12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

times are good, the numbers increase, a diversity officer may be appointed, and HR institutes sensitivity training. Denmark West (MBA 1998), an advisor, investor, and founding partner of Connectivity Ventures, points to the early 2000s as... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers

Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

Statement)" for these subsidiaries of large bank holding companies. By focusing on the Big Three global custody banks—State Street, BNY Mellon, and JPMorgan Chase—we make the case for large custody banks assuming the role of climate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

perceptions framework is of a single-stage stochastic inventory system with periodic review, constant lead times, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time series... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne