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- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
and the internal processes that create sustained advantage. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-027_a00eeeb6-c5c6-41cc-b4f4-8047926c067a.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
implemented. But strong vision about the wrong decisions, such as subordinate or others' decisions, may be detrimental to strategy and its implementation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2383972 Cases & Course View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
scale infrastructure issues on a global level. A related case, "Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City," HBS No. 210-085, contains more real estate finance and less water infrastructure finance material than this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-010.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-083 An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance-2014 Update Provides an introduction to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
higher for those in STEM occupations compared to younger workers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2354963 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-071 Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
oneself is also a purely positive proposition (that says nothing about what that commitment should be other than it be bigger than oneself). Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850544 Cases & Course View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
that this investor or crisis-induced IR affects the composition of a firm's investor base. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
efforts to redesign workspaces and processes so they are better integrated with patients' needs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-023.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Redgrove Axial Workshop Harvard Business School Case 409-034 Marc Fontaine, a new manager at a global manufacturing concern, is on a fast-track to a senior managerial position. One morning, in a storage room, he discovers some ornamental artifacts made with the same... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
investment in a nonprofit was handled strategically it would yield a greater impact for the people served. In an organization with compelling leadership, vision, and evidence of outcomes that were making a material difference in the lives... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
reality of global firms, most finance scholarship and pedagogic material conceives of firms as being entirely locally focused and ignores the many questions prompted by global operations. International considerations are typically only... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or stimulate new thoughts. Combining... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-438 The Transformation of NCR During his tenure as CEO since 2005, Bill Nuti... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
accessibility and robust data on EDGAR’s website with what information exists on health care quality and cost. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the SEC as a “truth” agency to disclose all material facts about the finance industry.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
"By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect many other elements with effects that are difficult to predict." Reinert: For millennia, most trade was either in raw material... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to economic independence.... View Details