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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
What does a career path for a public entrepreneur actually look like? In which sector (private vs. public) should I start? Should I run for elective office? What does that imply for how I pursue my career? And often, and perhaps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of Afghanistan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-104.pdf Elections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
situation where a smaller number of peers elect to share, and this would end up negatively affecting download speed. We show that this is not the case. It turns out that the behavior of peers is independent of the state of broadband... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
much. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611012-PDF-ENG Children's Hospital Boston (A) Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey C. ConnorHarvard Business School Case 411-041 Five year old Matty died at Children's Hospital Boston as a result of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the Author Doug J. Chung is the MBA Class of 1962 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Sales Management & Strategy in the second year MBA Elective Curriculum. [Image: Achisatha... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
"practicing" in a significant part of the field. Those who elect to sign a license agreement must pay a high license fee and therefore help to fund the company's R&D. The company, meanwhile, must balance the immediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
with procedures that respect rights and afford subsequent accountability. Some critics fear that socially responsible corporate activity encroaches upon the role of government and usurps authority reserved for elected officials and bodies... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
example, have witnessed at least four recessions.) What is distinct about this time, our time, is the breadth and magnitude of change—political, demographic, and technological—that is unfolding in and around large-scale economic shifts. Politically, the View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
failure to do so would cause $100 million worth of damage or certain loss of life or serious physical injury. If the board elects to spend $5 million of the shareholders' money for such equipment, the board should disclose its decision... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
elected mayor of Chicago because they wanted to be able to have a good relationship. So that's what helped get them to the table. And then I could work with the individual companies to explain how they would meet the commitments that the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
president of Morehouse. He had gone on from there to Crozer Theological Seminary, then elected to go north to Boston University to get his PhD, a very famous school at that time as well. He had married Coretta Scott and had a daughter.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
also higher in the presence of shareholder activism. We also find that director election results matter for director retention: directors are more likely to leave in the year following activism when they receive lower shareholder support.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
David Godes now teaches Sealed Air in the second-year elective Business Marketing. Says Godes, "There are so many different layers to this case but, in particular, it captures two important concepts: reaction to competitive entry and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture. In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three written for the HBS elective course "Competing through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
including voter, state, and election fixed effects, and allowing movers’ behavior to be arbitrarily different, both in levels and average trend, from non-movers’. We find that state characteristics explain about 52% of the observed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
leaders took global elections by storm. Populist movements raised the fundamental question of the role of business in the development of the conditions for the genesis of these movements, especially in relation to inequality, and how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Exploring the causes of natives’ backlash, I document that immigration increased natives’ employment and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
2013 elections in Kenya, the Electoral Commission sent 11 million nonpartisan text messages to registered voters in an effort to boost electoral participation. The messages had a positive effect on turnout but also decreased trust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne