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  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

structures of large manufacturing corporations remains important, but a new generation of researchers has explored business networks, the family firm, knowledge creation and transfer, public policy and business, and a host of other topics. We wanted to bring together... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

there are significant differences regarding, for example, the business leaders’ capacity to tolerate conflict and their ability to read others and empathize with their point of view. These results challenge some of the assumptions raised by current research and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

that facilitate teamwork has been a pursuit of researchers for nearly a half-century. We review existing literature on teams and team learning in organizational behavior and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement By: Carrillo, Paul, Dina Pomeranz, and Monica Singhal Abstract—Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

letters requesting trade literature and information from companies, as well as letters from students conducting research for Doriot's Manufacturing course. The collection also includes miscellaneous aeronautics brochures and timetables.... View Details
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

extensively in the literature. This paper introduces the store liquidation problem to the literature and presents a technique for optimizing key decision variables, such as markdown, inventory, and store closing decisions during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

response, it seems even more difficult to justify federal spending than otherwise. Q: What do you think your research has brought to the literature? A: The literature has had difficulty empirically identifying the effect of government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

ethical people consistently engage in unethical behavior? Over the last ten years researchers have started to explore this question. An emerging and very promising literature has begun to identify the importance of psychological factors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

Europe, implementing a flat tax in 1994. One of the fascinating aspects about the Estonian example is that Laar thought that a flat tax had already been tried and proved successful in Western economies, as the literature on the concept... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these ideas from the literature and with extended examples from Apple, NASA, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

family of objectives that have been well studied in the literature for their fairness properties. We deal with the problem of selecting the appropriate objective from this family. We characterize the trade-off achieved between efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

existence is only rarely commented upon. The Liverpool-based John Holt & Co with its Nigerian subsidiary John Holt PLC is an interesting case for a pilot study because the company returned in 2001 to an organizational form that is known as free-standing company in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the literature argues that entrepreneurs relied heavily on an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Carbon's Second Act

literature about how to go do that. And that was just going to prove to myself that the technology could work and was viable. DM: Turns out it was. I'm Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and this is the third and final episode of Clearing the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

dynamics. Furthermore it is unclear whether these factors differ significantly from those identified in the broader competitive strategy literature (e.g., are political resources different fundamentally from market resources; do firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

where the firm chooses capacities in two technologies in stage one, demand uncertainty resolves between stages (as does emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade), and then the firm chooses production quantities. As such, we bridge the discrete choice capacity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel