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- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
order to understand how socially imprinted WISEs may mitigate this negative relationship between social imprinting and economic productivity, we also conduct a comparative analysis of case studies. We find that one effective approach is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
rather than stop with static measures of firm creation, the researchers tracked the fortunes of the firms that the immigrant entrepreneurs created. Examining statistics on growth and survival, they found that immigrant-founded companies were more likely to follow an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
significantly positive; on the other hand, the marginal effects of taxation for growth for a state at the 90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years, HBS’s presence in this dynamic... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Ricardo De Armas
banking," Ricardo says, "but in my first internship, I found it very bureaucratic. P&G gave me a chance to pursue finance in a more dynamic environment." Over a four- and a-half-year tenure, his responsibilities were... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
short-term increase in otherwise steady charitable-giving patterns among firms that are headquartered in the event's host city. Natural disasters also have a strong effect on firms' giving patterns, according to the study Punctuated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
collectively, to the company’s goals. “When it comes to decision making and communication, HBS taught me that, while there is never a ‘right answer,’ effective leaders must always 1) have an opinion; 2) support this opinion with data; 3)... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
complex dynamics among boards, executives, and shareholders; the changing rights and powers of shareholders; different theories of corporate governance and their practical implications; the legal, financial, managerial, and behavioral... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term investment returns. Moreover, they analyze the forces at work in markets around the world, which are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
2018 Atlas of Moral Psychology In Search of Moral Equilibrium: Person, Situation, and Their Interplay in Behavioral Ethics By: Lee, Julia J., and F. Gino Abstract—This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we are less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Guidelines for Policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Cynthia Samanian
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? There were many reasons why I knew HBS was the right fit for me, both in the classroom and in my career. First, I was thrilled to experience the unique and engaging classroom dynamic... View Details