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  • January 2006 (Revised April 2006)
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Capitalism and Democracy in a New World

By: Bruce R. Scott, Sarah Potvin and Alison Adams
Focuses on the formulation of the Northwestern Ordinance as the core of a development strategy for capitalism and democracy in the United States. A precursor to the Constitution, the Northwestern Ordinance was based on the New England Model to achieve a broad and... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Economic Systems; Income; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Power and Influence; United States
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What Triggers National Stock Market Jumps?

By: Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Marco Sammon
We examine newspapers the day after major stock-market jumps to evaluate the proximate cause, geographic source, and clarity of these events from 1900 in the US, 1930 in the UK and 1980 in 12 other countries. We find four main results. First, the United States plays an... View Details
Keywords: Uncertainty; Policy Uncertainty; Stock Market; Financial Markets; Volatility; Risk and Uncertainty; Policy; Newspapers
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  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

positions. Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model Authors:Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard, and Kari L. Granger Publication:Chap. 16 in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53689 forthcoming Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2001 (Revised February 2003)
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Netherlands:The, A "Third Way?"

By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
The economic success of The Netherlands in the 1960s can be attributed to Dutch wages that were kept substantially below those in neighboring countries. But increased pressures in the 1970s led to a wage explosion, which in turn pushed unemployment and disguised... View Details
Keywords: Wages; History; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Employment; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; Economic Growth; Netherlands
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  • 28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

attract young engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Professor Laura Alfaro + More Info – Less Info Fueled by a series of recent political events and actors, anti-globalization has been growing. From the rise of political platforms pinning blame on openness to imports and immigration to the... View Details
  • January 2002 (Revised September 2002)
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Corporate Renewal in America

By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean
Discusses various macroeconomic, regulatory, technological, and financial forces that led to increased corporate restructuring in the United States beginning in the mid-1980s. The U.S. financial system is often viewed as the most developed in the world and a model for... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Restructuring; Markets; Private Sector; Corporate Finance; Germany; Japan; United States
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  • 01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

have encouraged our clients to take substantial portions of their U.S. equity portfolios and buy international stocks.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “Those markets are enticing but can be unbelievably volatile. We think the lowest-risk way to participate in... View Details
  • May 2017
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Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis

By: Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty and Scott Jelinsky
BACKGROUND: The association of differing genotypes with disease-related phenotypic traits offers great potential to both help identify new therapeutic targets and support stratification of patients who would gain the greatest benefit from specific drug classes.... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Genome-wide Association Study; Logistic Regression; Open Innovation; PLINK; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

that we can thrive. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53562 forthcoming Customer Needs and Solutions In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions By: Ascarza, Eva, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

  PublicationsBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract The long-standing argument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
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Cadre

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
Keywords: ＂Cadre,＂; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

well on their task. Authentic Leadership Development Author:Bill George Publication:In The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

  Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Books

and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and Development edited View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
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Harvard Business School

as a marketing executive for Scott Paper Company. When the president of MIT approached him, he accepted a position as assistant director of the Urban Systems Laboratory at MIT. Jones was active in the business community, joining numerous... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace