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  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and political economy. This is partly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

also show how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether you are making corporate deals, negotiating job offers, resolving business disputes, tackling obstacles in personal relationships, or even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the press that could only have come from highly placed members of the company. Fully understanding the context of the events of September, however, requires knowledge of board View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

are difficult to test.” A study of several protests While most previous studies of nonviolent social movements often focused on just one protest, Gethin and Pons set out to use a wider lens, researching 14 protest movements between 2017 and 2022. To gauge View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

limited data and resources available to you is a very powerful learning mechanism.  After I’d take a stance in class, I’d nervously wait to find out whether I was right or wrong, but quickly realized that if I were always going to be... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

going inside the nacelle, witnessing firsthand how each component fits seamlessly together. Donning personal protective equipment, steel-toed boots, and hard hats, we ascended over 15 feet of ladders into the high-tech nacelle body for a... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies

dire implications for the world We need to dramatically accelerate deployment of capital into sustainable infrastructure projects.” – Amanda Li (MBA 2018), COO and co-founder of Banyan Infrastructure Amanda Li grew up fascinated with the natural world. “I have always... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using field... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

of attention, and we use this framework to study the “attentional stability” of common errors and psychological biases. While many costly errors are prone to persist, in some situations a person will recognize her mistakes via “incidental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path Ahead

this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

climate report warns that harmful carbon emissions have never been higher in human history. First, the encouraging news: Data analysts at EVAdoption.com reported record sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2021, despite global chip... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

often leading to new patents and companies—and at the same time producing a rich dataset for research. Comparing the list of winners for 100 years with databases of patent data from the British Patent Office, the results were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

business. It all started, she told Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki, with a personal choice she made when she was young. Link to preview:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details
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