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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
http://www.people.hbs.edu/lalfaro/SurvivingGlobalFinancialCrisis.pdf Picking Green Tech's Winners and Losers Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Behavioral research suggests that human learning in some multi-agent systems can be predicted with surprisingly simple "foresight-free" models. The current note discusses the implications of this research, and its relationship to the observation that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business And Community; Well-being; Wealth and Poverty; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Technology Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Restructuring; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Banking Industry; Latin America
Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and other forms of innovation. We also propose a research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015 International Encyclopedia of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
Cuddy. "We've come a long way. Our current 900-plus first-year students are 40 percent women—our highest percentage ever," said Ely. "And our student body is far more diverse now than it was 50 years ago, not just in gender but in race, ethnicity, View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Relies on Franch and Raven's framework that identifies five bases of social power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert), describing how these bases change depending on the circumstances of a relationship. Also describes how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
increase their total equity allocation as the horizon increases, the mean value tilt of the optimal allocation is shown to be positive and stable across time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/JV_GV_20100223.pdf Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gfkmir.2014.6.issue-2/gfkmir-2014-0095/gfkmir-2014-0095.xml February 2015 Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Directions Diversity in Groups By: Fernandes, Catarina, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
shrouding risk. We find four empirical results consistent with this view. First, we show that structured products with complex payoff formulas offer higher headline rates, and that they more frequently expose investors to a complete loss... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
element of structure and control during an uncertain time. The fact that many of the types of exercises mentioned were repetitive and contemplative in nature suggests that this may have been a quality the CEOs sought out, consciously or... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace