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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
learning processes by their nature involve facing failures—problems, mistakes—head on. The presence of problems or mistakes doesn't signal high performance to most people who might be watching. Some scholars go so far as to define... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
would you advise foreign investors to protect themselves? A: CME viewed a local partner as a substitute for a local presence—I think this is a critical mistake. Remarkably, CME had no local presence and no independent sources of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
has more questions than answers. "I don't know what my overall conclusion will be yet, but I would like to draw some lessons from this eventually—either determine that these interventions are a good idea, and here is what can be done to make it work. Or, this can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
the flipside of the coin was the danger. I lost three of my bodyguards to a suicide bomber. Later, we were ambushed twice. The second time around was very serious. My armored car took 24 hits. When did you realize that the American View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
different sections for the duration of a flight. The chances passengers will become unruly were 3.84 times higher when they experienced “physical inequality” by the mere presence of a first-class cabin compared with planes that didn’t... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609041-PDF-ENG Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer Harvard Business School Case 410-007 Peter Roberts, CEO of Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL) Americas division, has been charged with expanding the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
Harvard programs, you can’t but hope for disagreement and new perspective, and pray you'll have the presence of mind to really explore new perspectives when facing a disagreement. These programs give you tools and frameworks to find and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
are in what Crutzen terms the Anthropocene epoch. It is one dominated by the impact of humans on the earth’s environment through such things as the rivers we dam, the things we burn and consume, the way we use land, and the materials such as plastics that will remain... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
entrepreneurship, a field they hadn't considered academic for a long time. The emergence of global start-ups, said Kuemmerle, has occurred very quickly. "An early global presence is very important, because business models are... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
equilibrium. We relate these theoretical results to the job market for psychologists, in which stable matchings exist for all years of the data, despite the presence of couples. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16028.pdf ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Periodical:Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the effects of mandated disclosure on the design of contracts and induced behavior in the presence of career concerns. We analyze the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
international order, and so on. Time equations handle complexity by simply adding terms with Boolean logic that test for the presence of a particular feature that adds or subtracts time to overall processing time, a simple and elegant... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
international corporation by taking the best ideas from everywhere it has a presence and implementing them worldwide throughout its entire system." Rohit Deshpandé also sees local context as integral to the global big picture.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been... View Details