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  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

ridiculed Babson's forecasting methods, which were informed by his belief, based on his reading of Isaac Newton, that economic "actions and reactions" (or depressions and expansions) would always be equal. But Babson was able to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
  • Case

Fast Ion Battery

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio
John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a phone call from Don Lerner at Bluelock Ventures telling him that Bluelock would not participate in the $5M bridge financing for Fast Ion Battery. Lerner's... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Real Options; Term Sheets; Clean Technology; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

(forthcoming) Abstract We explore the existence and underlying neural mechanism of a new norm endorsed by both black and white Americans for managing interracial interactions: "racial paralysis,"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede future sovereign debt restructurings View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

  Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to change strategy. The operations literature has examined product liquidation, but retail store liquidation differs significantly. This paper augments... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

that black families’ median wealth will decrease to $0 by the year 2050, while white families’ median wealth will exceed $100,000. There are currently no black women Fortune 500 CEOs, and at the sixteen... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 28 Aug 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

access in business in the U.S., and how the face of American leadership might be changing. A Q&A with Anthony J. Mayo. Key concepts include: Paths to power in American business have followed two tracks: The inside track favors white... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered those remarks in a now famous speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. Everyone present felt the power of his words, but no one could have known just how prescient they were. The following evening, at... View Details
  • 12 Jun 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the View Details
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

the Eureka Story, the Mad Scientist Story, the Survey Story, the Prediction Story, and the "Here's What Happened" Story. The excerpt focuses on the first two. —Sean Silverthorne book excerpt Framing The Problem From: Keeping Up with the Quants View Details
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its performance is under review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

called into question by several significant organizational stumbling blocks. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073   PublicationsAgency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Town From Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By Michel Anteby The campus's plantings and buildings contrast sharply with the banks of the nearby river. A pedestrian entering the campus suddenly... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

customer experience is so poor across the health care industry. "Employers do. So there's no real driver for quality." Hsiang (HBS MBA 2010), a health data advisor for the White House's US Digital Service and the Office of Science and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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