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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
gloves. Lovell’s works such as Strive and prints including Barbados (also in the Schwartz Art Collection) bring the past into the present. He describes his aim as an artist: “I want to evoke the sense of place, [so one is] able to feel the spirit of the past for a... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
the firm. Recently Gibbons and Henderson (2013) have suggested that one way to formalize this insight is through a focus on the role of relational contracts within the firm. They hypothesize this implies that the performance effects of management practices will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against them more than their presence in higher level leadership positions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice Presidents" in other firms, they may be wary of meeting just... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
competitors can help grow the market for your products and services, thereby boosting your sales at a time when, with the U.S. slowdown entering its third year, new revenue is exceedingly hard to find. Moreover, the presence of a... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Global Activities 2021 REPORT In a year shaped by the pandemic, Harvard Business School’s global presence has enabled the School to be at the forefront of the study of emerging trends. Faculty members draw on the resources and expertise... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself—and not by external pressures. This is the "Intrinsic Motivation Principle of Creativity" (Amabile, 1996), and it suggests that the social environment, particularly the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
corporate governance, such as the presence of engaged independent board members and other measures, is vital for this separation to work well. “But if management is not under shareholders’ control,” continues Viceira, “it may act in its... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms plays an important role in firms' decision-making processes. This paper explores how strategic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
outside innovators? A: The first main advantage is the presence of multiple parallel paths to solve an innovation problem. In both markets and communities, external innovators will explore innovation landscapes that are often unknown and... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
a player's pay-off from agreement is risky. We find that a risk-averse player typically increases his equilibrium receipts when his pay-off is made risky. This is because the presence of risk makes individuals behave "more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
efficiently in the presence of the firm than in its absence. PDF not available. Cases & Course MaterialsAmorePacific Harvard Business School Note 507-070 Describes the dominant firm in the Korean cosmetics market up to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the necessary quantity of masks (e.g., through mass production) and to put in place an efficient distribution system. Even in a time of crisis, there will always be the presence of adverse economic forces that can lead to profiteering... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and chairperson, Fazle Hasan Abed, was knighted in 2010 by the British Crown for his service in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
School Case 514-095 23andMe: Genetic Testing for Consumers (B) Following the FDA's letter in November 2013, which ordered 23andMe to cease sales of its DNA test kits, observers wondered how co-founder and CEO, Anne Wojcicki, would guide the company in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
will replace its web presence this fall, it’s the female perspective that’s most important. The women in the focus group—most fellow entrepreneurs—give an enthusiastic thumbs-up to the app’s Tinder-like swipe function; women who nominate... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
situational inequality, induced by the design of environments, can foster antisocial behavior. We use a complete set of all onboard air rage incidents over several years from a large, international airline to test our predictions. Physical inequality on airplanes—that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
likely, is that seeing a human face is giving you access to advanced cognitive mechanisms, and so you will encode things more deeply because they're paired with a face," she says. Looser also plans to study whether our brains get overloaded in the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
standard. We also develop and test two extensions of the earlier model: the presence of provisions mandating royalty-free licensing is negatively associated with disclosure requirements, and when there are only a limited number of SSOs,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace