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    Eric Boutin

    Longwood Fund, a life sciences venture capital fund, where he led early-stage biotech deals and founded Flex Pharma, a neuromuscular sports performance company, which went on to IPO (NASDAQ: FLKS). Eric holds an MBA from Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare
    • 26 Jan 2010
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    First Look: Jan. 26

    Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile

    By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
    We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Decision Making; Interest Rates; Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Global Range; Chile
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    • 21 Nov 2006
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    First Look: November 21, 2006

    three- and five-year stock performance of these offerings. RLBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole, with economically and statistically meaningful positive returns.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2015
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    December 1, 2015

    for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, inaugurating dozens of new states desperate for a political... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Aug 2013
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    First Look: August 27

      Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

    called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
    • 12 Nov 2008
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    First Look: November 12, 2008

    Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Apr 2011
    • News

    Management Matters In Health Care, Too

    field. Although they come from very different backgrounds, the three panel members presented a unified view of why management really matters. HBS assistant professor Raffaella Sadun described her groundbreaking research on the impact of management on hospital View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
    • 01 Dec 2010
    • News

    Faculty Books

    value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution. Building World Class Universities in Asia by Daniel Quinn Mills (CreateSpace) After discussing higher education’s potential contribution to Asia’s economic progress and the... View Details
    Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation
    • 17 Mar 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

    that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has prospered on the View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 01 Dec 2002
    • News

    Books

    approach that takes both ethical and economic imperatives seriously. Paine's book speaks directly to those responsible for a company's performance —executives, entrepreneurs, directors, managers — but any... View Details
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    BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

    BiGS Research At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we advance rigorous, practice-oriented research at the intersection of business and society. Our projects explore corporate ownership structures, sustainable industrial policy, View Details
    • 26 Apr 2011
    • Op-Ed

    HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

    employees, and civil society, have made the case that better environmental performance can lead to better economic performance. One response on the part of corporations has been innovation in products and... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
    • February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
    • Teaching Note

    Braddock Industries, Inc. (TN)

    By: William E. Fruhan
    Teaching Note for 211061. View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Economics; Business Units; Performance Evaluation
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    • 01 Apr 1996
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    Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

    "That is a big mistake." Predictability allows everyone to know what the rules are, establishing an atmosphere of trust so that people can work together productively in an organization, Stevenson argues. Companies can provide more stable environments by, among other... View Details
    • 30 Aug 2016
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    August 30, 2016

    variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 30 Sep 2008
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    First Look: September 30, 2008

    benefit of increased labor is improved quality. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of labor on profitability through its impact on quality. Since employees at retail stores perform both production-related activities and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

    impartially among a range of views, faculty members debated the ramifications of this approach to course content and HBS pedagogy. Then, O&M Professor Michael C. Jensen's summary of the unit's views on the corporate objective function and View Details
    • 16 Sep 2014
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    First Look: September 16

    innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne