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  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

model. We find for the median sample firm that an increase of $1 million in lobbying spending is associated with about $32.35 million in taxes saved. These estimates, while consistent with a high-returns "puzzle," are nearly an order of magnitude lower than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

for finance professionals striving to make well-informed financial decisions. Political homogeneity creates potential risks in the workplace. When decision-makers share the same political views, they risk creating echo chambers that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

learn. Executives can widen a manager's span of influence by redesigning her job—placing her on a cross-functional team, for example, or giving her an assignment that requires her to report to two bosses. They can also adjust a job's span... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic is restructuring the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the teams measure and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

with the organization as it's building its capacity and figuring out its accountability priorities. But that's still relatively rare. The third issue is the difference between financial and social metrics. We have a system of generally... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3

own right. This article explores what the teams research community has to gain by researching, theorizing, and understanding the many new forms of contemporary collaboration.   Working PapersHow Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

service provider Geek Squad. For the eight years leading up to 2004, Best Buy had reported double-digit revenue growth every year and rarely missed earnings. But on December 13, 2005, Best Buy missed its third-quarter earnings per share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big enough to warrant a BusinessWeek... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

their leaders to recognize the importance and take advantage of advances in communications technology to remain relevant and competitive. J. W. Carpenter reported that "Our study shows that without the capacity to absorb... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they'd hire an MBA. According to several deans, that's no longer true. Financial services and consulting firms, which hire... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 22 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

Professional service firms—law firms, financial services firms, money management firms, private equity firms, hedge funds, management consultants, advertising agencies—are the most challenging and exciting organizations to lead, maintain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and event-planning needs that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

years the business pages of the world press were reporting an exploding number of serious disputes between foreign investors and governments. As the expected bonanzas proved elusive and the protections weaker than anticipated, many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between how people anticipate preferences and their subsequent preferences. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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