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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians

By: Dylan Minor
When seeking new leaders, business and government organizations alike often need individuals that are less risk averse, or even risk-seeking, in order to improve performance. However, individuals amenable to increased risk-taking may be more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Behavior; Ethics; Government and Politics; United States
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    Ethan C. Rouen

    Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the faculty co-chair of the View Details

    • February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Koita Foods

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Elie Ofek and Michael Norris
    In 2018, Mustafa Koita, Founder and CEO of Dubai-based organic milk company Koita has to decide whether or not to pursue an investment from a potential competitor who is coming into his local market. View Details
    Keywords: Organic Milk; Mom Blog; Entrepreneurship; Cash Flow; Food; Growth Management; Investment; Social Marketing; Ownership Stake; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Arab Emirates; Dubai
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    • December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Codevasf

    By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred
    With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Resource Allocation; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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    • 30 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    New Paths to Success in Asia

    the Asia-Pacific region. Poised to enter the World Trade Organization, China is sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless... View Details
    Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
    • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
    In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
    Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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    dollarDEX (1998-2007)

    Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

    One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

    • Career Coach

    Adam Shimer

    House’s National Economic Council. Adam is well-equipped to help students in 3 areas: (1) all things consulting recruiting – including students who are trying to figure out if it’s a good fit for them, (2) government / non-profit... View Details
    • 14 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

    employment—and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Racial Heterogeneity and Local View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

    villages, small towns, and major cities, often with a sizable amount of investment or involvement by local government authorities. It is hard to find any reasonably sized Chinese company in which View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace

      Josh Lerner

      Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
      • 15 Sep 2016
      • News

      LeBron James Helps Young Entrepreneurs In 'Cleveland Hustles'

      • May 2012
      • Article

      Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment

      By: Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler and Yu Yuan
      We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a... View Details
      Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Globalization; Stocks; Markets; Capital; Financial Services Industry
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        David A. Moss

        David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

        Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        The New Digital Divide

        By: Mayana Pereira, Shane Greenstein, Raffaella Sadun, Prasanna Tambe, Lucia Ronchi Darre, Tammy Glazer, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia and Juan Lavista Ferres
        We build and analyze new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across forty million Windows devices in U.S. households. These measures of US household digital usage are much more comprehensive than... View Details
        Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Measurement and Metrics; Geographic Location; Behavior; Technology Adoption; Demographics
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        • 01 Dec 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

        Keywords: by David Moss; Banking
        • 01 Jul 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

        push the bottleneck to the second phase, similar to the "Series A crunch" occurring in the early stage financing of startups today. After all, even with traditional VC financing, investors in startups lose their shirt up to 75... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
        • October 1987 (Revised October 1989)
        • Background Note

        Moving Ideas into Action: Mastering the Art of Change

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
        Discusses elements in organizing a large scale change effort: defining a shared vision, coalition building, management structure and process, communication and education, local participation and innovation, standards and measures, and symbols and signals. View Details
        Keywords: Change Management; Communication; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy
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        • 13 Apr 2020
        • News

        Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

        • Research Summary

        National Innovation Systems in the Life Sciences

        This is an international comparative study of how institutional contexts shape the process by which science is leveraged into commercial technology. The study explores how variance in corporate governance systems, knowledge- and skill-formation systems, and... View Details