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  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

generations. For example, if the temperature goes up 2-½ degrees Celsius worldwide, the resulting heat wave will have devastating effects on people, animals, and crops as energy consumption skyrockets. The 40th anniversary of Earth Day... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

examination of i) the consequences of violating the trust of market participants; ii) cultural and leadership flaws at Barclays; iii) the challenge of effectively competing in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

interview with Abdelal about this research, see "How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance."And so we find ourselves living, once again, in an era of financial openness and mobile capital. It is not the first View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

heart of good and wise leadership. In the following excerpt, Lawrence describes how various forms of globalization—classic trading, international sales, and transnational outsourcing—reveal examples of good, bad, and misguided View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers, and excessive adoption of the intermediary's services. Competition among intermediaries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those internal pressures are real. Dealing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

what employees can do to resist them. As she states in a recent column in Harvard Business Review, "The best cure for horrible bosses is wonderful colleagues." Bad boss behavior #1: failure to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs and benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance Authors:Robin J. Ely, Irene Padavic, and David A. Thomas Publication:Organization Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper argues that learning View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

characteristics, in particular age. In a second treatment we explicitly tell children not to cheat. This request has a dampening effect on their tendency to over-report the... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

about to start her next stage of medical training in the United States, which means that pursuing his aspiration now will separate them. All of these considerations raise three questions: (1) Is the timing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

and in-tune with the communication and leadership styles of others. This internship is my first time starting a new job with career experience under my belt and the skills I've learned at HBS gave me a new... View Details