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  • 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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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

  • Working Paper Summaries

How do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?

Keywords: by Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane; Financial Services
  • 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
  • April 2005
  • Article

The Geography of Equity Analysis

By: Christopher J. Malloy
I provide evidence that geographically proximate analysts are more accurate than other analysts. Stock returns immediately surrounding forecast revisions suggest that local analysts impact prices more than other analysts. These effects are strongest for firms located... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Performance; Equity; Information; Prejudice and Bias; Agency Theory
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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

    • December 2020
    • Article

    Monetary Policy and Global Banking

    By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina
    When central banks adjust interest rates, the opportunity cost of lending in local currency changes, but—in absence of frictions—there is no spillover effect to lending in other currencies. However, when equity capital is limited, global banks must benchmark domestic... View Details
    Keywords: Global Banks; Monetary Policy Transmission; Cross-border Lending; Banks and Banking; Financial Markets; Global Range
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    • 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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    • 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
    • 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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    • 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
    • 13 Apr 2020
    • News

    Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

      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

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      • 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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      • Aug 27 2015
      • Testimonial

      Creating a Holistic Educational Experience

      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

      By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
      We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater... View Details
      Keywords: Hiring; Job Creation; E-Verify; Immigration; Selection and Staffing; Ethnicity; Entrepreneurship
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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

        Mahbubur Rahman

        Keywords: Finance
        • June 2007 (Revised September 2021)
        • Case

        Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany

        By: Geoffrey Jones, Grace Ballor and Adrian Brown
        Considers the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a manufacturer of punch cards, in Nazi Germany before 1937. Opens with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting Adolf Hitler in his capacity as President of the International Chamber of Commerce. IBM had acquired a German company... View Details
        Keywords: Business History; Values and Beliefs; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Germany; United States
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        • 23 Mar 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

        at mid-century was that the Republican era had been a political interregnum, without a functioning central government, an interregnum called to an end by the New China of the Chinese Communist Party. China's central governments were... View Details
        Keywords: by William C. Kirby