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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
in the Istanbul Stock Exchange and to being the country’s largest retail company by market capitalization. Seeing an opportunity to pioneer the format internationally, the company was now also in Morocco and Egypt. While the hard-discount... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44724 Strategic Search Diversion, Product Affiliation and Platform Competition By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien Abstract—Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
alternative measures of trade costs, address potential reverse causality, and explore regional patterns. CEO Personality and Firm Policies By: Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina Abstract—Based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
managing very well. You did-- I believe-- have another psychotic break, is that correct? Switz: Yes, I went from HBS to McKinsey for three years and then, to GE Capital in a strategy role. And a couple of weeks after my wedding, had my second psychotic break. And I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from every direction. There’s the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
of two years in exchange for partial sponsorship of my degree. The hours were intense. I also had this amazing new baby at home, and I was still nursing. So I asked for permission during my first few months to travel on consulting... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
manufacturer. Set just after BYD's initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2002, it describes the development of BYD's labor-intensive approach to battery manufacturing-an approach decidedly different from its more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are clearly tied to the company’s... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are clearly tied to the company’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
markets are going to bear. That’s the core challenge. Can we find solutions that can scale quickly enough to start allowing us to make some headway against CO2 emissions and do it at a cost point that’s going to work in the marketplace? You’ve View Details
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Lambert wanted to leave behind her agricultural roots. Now, serving as the nexus for a community of farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers, she feels entirely at home. Work of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
redistributive across sectors, as exporters would have tax losses as far as the eye can see and importers would have much larger taxes due, unless exchange rates adjust to neutralize these changes in taxation, as economic theory would... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Behavioral economists argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and that’s what I’m working on. In the course description for Leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
months that included marrying Sarah Abugre, a teacher he met in Ghana; moving with her to the United States; and settling in at Soldiers Field. While pursuing concurrent MBA and MPA degrees at HBS and the Kennedy School, Murphy was delighted to find “so many... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
framework for future research to explore and develop these arguments. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2231526 Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—This study tests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder... View Details