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- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes, we show that this prediction holds well. Payout taxes have a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
gender, family) in the context of organizational/occupational pressures and personal preferences regarding this identity. We propose that the dual forces of pressures and preferences vary from inclusion (e.g., incorporating the non-work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
previously lived outside India rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who are based outside software hubs—where getting leads to new businesses and accessing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
financing institutions, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). We find that developing countries serving on the Board of Executive Directors can expect an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
case: http://hbr.org/product/outotec-a-project-capture/an/514064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-065 Outotec (B): Action Plan No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/outotec-b-action-plan/an/514065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
PublicationsFinding Your True North: A Personal Guide Authors:Bill George, Andrew McLean, and Nick Craig Publication:San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008 Abstract Based on Bill George's bestselling book True North, this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
thrive? Bhaskar Chakravorti: Let me start with a replay of a conversation I had recently with Frederick, the person who runs the auto repair shop where I regularly take my 1998 and 2002 vintage cars. I asked him if he was experiencing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
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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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
more appealing since it comprises a higher-than-normal proportion of women (especially when gymnastics and swimming are featured) compared to typical sports programs. The TV tradition of "up-close-and-personal" human interest stories focusing on athletes'... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
crafting their identities; and transforming obstacles into opportunities. Beyond personal strengths, the authors say, another factor was critical: nurturing relationships with mentors who recognized the women’s talent and made it their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
puzzle," writes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, with coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete? How has this book been received in Japan? Perhaps I'm not the most objective person to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
CEOs' personal assistants to track their bosses' activities with time-use diaries. Research was conducted by Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School, Luigi Guiso of the European University Institute, and Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
the Spanish superstar for the 2018 tournament after all. What is the best course of action? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518041 Harvard Business School Case 218-033 Tesla Motors (A): Financing Growth The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
gaming of Securities and Exchange Commission rules by Citigroup's mortgage-banking desk in 2007 is an illuminating example of institutional corruption in the finance industry. After exploring that case, I provide a more complete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
about the changing nature of careers and changing preferences people have for structuring their personal and professional lives. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409060... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
interested in studying this relatively unexplored area. Q: Why did you decide to focus on entrepreneurship in the advertising industry in your research? A: Advertising more than most businesses responds to the talents and personalities of... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
insight of that paper, which is that a demand for fairness could lead to different economic systems such as those observed in France versus the U.S. (multiple equilibria). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-059.pdf A Brief Postwar History of U.S.... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-102.pdf Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
60 percent of successful applications. About 40 percent of H-1B recipients between 2000 and 2005 came from India, while 10 percent came from China. Once the worker has migrated, the immigrant is essentially locked in with the firm until the View Details