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- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
How should he handle other issues like the architectural designs, the construction process, and the legal process? How should he balance all the competing demands on his time? This case serves as an introduction to the multifamily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
particularly the French, who authored the most important rules promoting the free movement of capital. The United States has been at the center of global finance, but in a very ad hoc way, Abdelal says. In this interview about his research and his book, Capital Rules:... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active investment managers and passive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
relationship between the Jimmy Fund and the Perini Corporation. Initiated in 1948 by Louis Perini, second-generation CEO of a family-owned, Boston-based construction company, and Sidney Farber, M.D., a pioneer in cancer treatment, this... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
only what is traded, proves integral to constructing legitimacy, thus suggesting a practice-based view of moral markets. The professionals, including a group of "gatekeepers," construct a narrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
emerging cultural problems. This and similar types of constructive steps taken by the board can serve to preempt issues before they become a threat to the company and the CEO's career. I would not presume to suggest to a board what... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
small—even integrated into the side of existing structures, improving convenience while further reducing construction costs. Because service is on demand, passengers need not wait for a vehicle to arrive, and changing lines would be a... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
engineering development and construction projects. In what ways are the challenges of managing large, complex projects different from the challenges of managing other large industrial activities? How is it possible to evaluate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
demands of city officials, cable operators encountered higher than expected construction costs as they entered urban markets. It proved difficult to lay cable under busy city streets while avoiding disruption to existing power, phone,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
scholars of economics, history, and political science, we bring an interdisciplinary approach to constructing and revising the BGIE Twenty, and we intend for it to have pedagogical and intellectual impact beyond our classrooms. The ideas... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
and time), across cultures with differing tolerance for ambiguity in relationships (the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria), and is distinct from related constructs such as generosity, conscientiousness, fastidious, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
Business School Case 717-431 Elon Musk's Big Bets Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and scope of Tesla’s business. In late 2014, Tesla began View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
field when leaders at the top establish the support structure to make further leadership possible. Leaders construct and reinforce the cornerstones of confidence, as shown so vividly in the turnarounds I have described. The mission... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter