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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
fifth. The global agriculture system was undergoing major changes and the standard of living in China was increasing, changing the food consumption and dietary habits of the nation's 1.3 billion people. COFCO's management needed to decide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
(GMP 6, 2009) about what it takes to make real change to the diversity of your organization. READ MORE Chitra: You've helped build companies, build people, processes, and systems at scale. So what has to be different to bring real... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
governments had tried to address them. So a congressional panel overlooking the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) called him to report on what successful regulatory reform might look like. “Responding to this request, I took a close... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
architecture. In particular, we draw from modular systems theory to develop a series of hypotheses about how different types of coupling impact the ability to update, remove, or replace the software applications in a firm’s portfolio. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
recouple consumer activities or rebalance the revenues generated from each activity. Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-417 What Is Global? Allocating Products and Activities Across Locations No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
privately-held company, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Its long-term objective is to build a diversified portfolio focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of energy and other resource-related assets in Armenia and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Publication: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98 (May 2008): 297-303 Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real wages for... View Details
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
many infrastructure challenges as well. It is one of the rainiest lands in the world, making many of its roads impassable half of the year. There's little electricity generated, about enough to power a small university campus, to serve the entire country. And the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of uncertainty and where assets are often difficult to value. Second, because the various stages of the venture capital process are related, the entire function is best viewed as a cycle. Finally, unlike most financial markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
(residual income) the conceptual conflict is exacerbated by the adoption of 'fair value' (FV) as the measurement basis for assets and liabilities rather than the more theoretically grounded approach of 'deprival value/relief value'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
the company, from light bulbs to medical systems to financial services. It was a very valuable time for me because I gained hands-on experience applying 'quality' principles to the environmental health and safety arena. I worked with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/board-design-and-management-considerations-for-startups/an/814098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-093 Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's commercial banks and 2nd among the other national commercial banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
engineering for sustainable development.” The program at the University of Cambridge presented Sheil with an opportunity to reflect and then narrow her focus on what she wanted to be doing in the climate sustainability space. With her goals defined, it was time for HBS... View Details