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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in which business leaders in... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in countries with higher domestic credit. The higher contribution of financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
those declines. Our argument is built around three core themes. Theme 1: When a Country Loses the Capability to Manufacture, It Loses the Ability to Innovate Innovation and manufacturing are often viewed as residing at the opposite ends... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans By: Beshears, John, Katherine L. Milkman, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—People make personal plans regarding whether, when,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
largest Brazilian beauty company and one of the world's top twenty beauty companies, to explore how the logic of globalization is changing for corporations from emerging countries as growth opportunities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
countries with weak legal institutions. By implication, these findings suggest that improvements in foreign firms’ information environment upon listing in the U.S., as documented in prior literature, stem in part from the greater... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
cash flow to ensure this. Evidence shows that there are limits to venture capital as a solution to the funding gap, especially in countries where public equity markets for venture capital exit are not highly developed. We conclude by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
high impact entrepreneurship movement as a tool for economic development in countries around the world. In 2010, Jaime was named an Endeavor Entrepreneur. This case can accompany HBS Case No. 817-073, “MIA: Profit at the Base of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to weigh carefully are moving production from the original View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
economy, a large share of exports and foreign direct investment [FDI]. But when you look at the trajectory over time—job growth rates, wage growth rates, changes in export or FDI share, particularly compared to emerging economies—the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
significant heterogeneity across countries and drug classes in all of these outcomes. While we observe that effective buyer institutions (in particular, committed tenders) are associated with increased biosimilar entry and penetration,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
countries where they operate. We find that our index of transparency across host countries is lower the more corrupt the host country, the higher the number of nationalizations in that host View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
came to this country chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School." When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
find that perceptions of crime and individual experience with crime (crime victimization) are positively correlated with left-wing beliefs within countries, controlling for income and other correlates of ideology, in a sample of Latin American View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
fighting intolerance and religious extremism. All of which makes her seemingly an unusual interview subject for Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets series, sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, which has... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
Fall 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Global Talent Flows By: Kerr, William R., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Çağlar Özden Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne