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  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management team and financial sponsors. Was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

company's sources of advantage over time. The analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only on its design (its levers and how they relate to one another) but also, most importantly, on its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

researchers asked board members what activities they thought their boards were good at. Technology and innovation ranked 17th and 18th, with only 42 percent of board members listing their handling of those issues above average—far below the proportion ranking of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006

Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

There is next to no evidence that CSR positively adds to a company's bottom line, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "You cannot find a robust direct link between CSR and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912413-PDF-ENG Boston Physicians Devices Marc L. BertonecheHarvard Business School Case 212-070 The case is a very simple, short case based on the author's general experience, to introduce View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

healthcare, and microfinance. In the process, a case is made that these disruptive commercial models are a key component in the response to poverty, and that there is a social role for financial returns. Accordingly, the basic goods and... 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
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

because you're talking about discovering something that's completely new," she says. "That requires a different kind of management strategy." For example, the financial metrics used to make management decisions in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks the growth of the subprime industry and its collapse leading to the financial crisis. The case describes the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 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
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

concerned citizens. These case studies strongly portray the challenges that public health faces in our times. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52269 forthcoming Journal of Human Hypertension A Retrospective View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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