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- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
critical. Q: Most large organizations manage their portfolios as a collection of projects, rather than as an integrated portfolio. Yet, as you write, the practice of using investment portfolio management techniques to manage project... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
hindered or helped by the responsiveness of government regulators like central banks. Similarly, in some countries, the financial sector is dominated by large family-owned banks that can become a barrier to market access. Many emerging... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
unreported numbers said. It’s startling to find that managers are not even neutral; they’re somewhat negative.” RESEARCHERS CREATE FORECASTING MODEL To test their ideas, the researchers studied 50 big-box retailers in the United States,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
next step, as outlined in a working paper entitled "Tigers and Dragons: Profiling High Performance Asian Firms." Deshpandé and Farley extended their research to analyze company performance in large companies in China, Hong Kong,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Hooper, MBA 2001 Nigel Killick, MBA 2001 Fabien Mousseau, MBA 2001 Reallyenglish.com is an on-line English language teaching company, with offices in Japan and London. The business model is to offer students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS
Asian community coming together to showcase our unique cultures for friends, peers, and faculty at HBS. It was a gateway that opened many discussions. While practicing, performers learned about the different states and languages that were... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
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
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
disbursements are relatively more staggered. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14074 Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a goal-oriented model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
in damage to the local community), local corporate philanthropy did increase in the short term. But in cases of large disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, donations from local firms decreased in the aftermath. "After a threshold of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
intellectual property arrangements are also necessary.” At the colloquium, Bowen’s colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled “Emerging Models of Corporate Research,” which centered on case studies on Corning, IBM, and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career Fellow selects a company and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
music as if it were a language they were speaking constantly and through that were able to develop their musical senses and abilities to a very high level. And that was just this idea floating around in my mind: Wouldn’t it be great if... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: poverty trumps all, yet in a complex, nuanced way. As Nepal's conflict... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
large-sample evidence adding to a growing literature suggesting that NPEs—in particular, large patent aggregators—on average act as "patent trolls," suing cash-rich firms seemingly irrespective of actual patent infringement.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three laboratory experiments and a survey study of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
same way. Historically in the internet era, the notion for startups has been to build a large customer base and monetize it through advertising. But it's hard to name more than two companies that have done this successfully. If Google and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne