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- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
company seems to need a "perfect certitude" of success before investing in something new, Kanter said. "Companies ask me to talk to them about innovation, and the first thing they ask is, 'Who else is doing it?'" Anger... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved involving Andrew Fastow’s dual... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
charcoal and fuel wood. Antitrust Scrutiny of Google Authors:Edelman, Benjamin G. Publication:Journal of Law Abstract I evaluate antitrust claims against Google and propose possible remedies. While Google's specific tactics are often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
flexible contract invested significantly more in their businesses and earned higher returns as a result. Their businesses were bigger three years later, and they are still bigger now, ten years later. That paper was very influential and... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
are interested in investing in startups. The class focuses on pre-product-market fit technology-based ventures in a range of information technology-based sectors. Business models covered include SaaS, freemium, e-commerce,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting
Employee Resource Groups. Mission statements and company values are often publicly accessible on organizations’ websites. Evaluate if your mission statements include diversity and inclusion and if not, address it. What does your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985, BCC has View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional explanation regarding the low real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
University of Chicago Press, 1987. Merton, Robert C. , and R. D. Henriksson. "On Market Timing and Investment Performance Part II: Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills." In Journal of... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply an elasticity of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Investment Conundrum Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa StropeHarvard Business School Case 811-073 Hardina Smythe, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2010.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne