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  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

the comparability of such studies has been hampered by the lack of a precise definition of the community construct. In this paper we review prior definitions (implicit and explicit) of the community construct and other suggestions for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

alignment of interests of the players, the construction process, and the various methods available to contract with the general contractor including lump sum, cost-plus, and guaranteed maximum price. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Cost-Efficient Decarbonization of Portland Cement Production

By: Gunther Glenk, Anton Kelnhofer, Rebecca Meier and Stefan Reichelstein
Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production is becoming technologically ready for deployment, many are... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Carbon Abatement; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Emissions; Carbon Regulation; Carbon Tax; Net-zero Emissions; Management; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Environmental Accounting; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Construction Industry; Steel Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

there has been more and more construction in hazard prone areas. And it’s possible that the existence of federal disaster relief actually helped stimulate some of that building. The point is that if we’re going to provide the relief,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with Input-Output tables. In line with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

reviews for their competitors. Such review fraud undermines the trustworthiness of consumer reviews and constitutes a major risk factor for review sites. In this paper, we investigate review fraud on the popular consumer review site Yelp. We View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

data and then thinking about the potential complementarities of strategies from a portfolio construction context. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211025-PDF-ENG News in the Digital World: Who Pays? Stephen P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

engineers? You're enmeshed within this wash of information, and your inventors create and they help others create and others help them create. Then the challenge becomes, which of these streams of invention do you decide to commercialize and how do you View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

regions in America. Seawater desalination is expensive and energy intensive, but it could be a partial solution. Brian Brady and other members of the Authority need to vote for or against a financing and construction plan that includes a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological safety describes people's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

  Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

by such great managers as August Thyssen, Alfred Krupp, and Werner Siemens. Professor Jeffrey Fear's book Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management overturns some of our preconceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
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Waking Up a Sleeping Company

consultants. Instead, I modeled constructive conflict myself by creating a more challenging atmosphere in our executive meetings. This meant asking probing questions, insisting that managers present each situation in objective terms... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

constructive agreement. As disagreement and conflict intensify, sophisticated negotiators should expect biased perceptions, both on their own side and the other side. Less seasoned players tend to be shocked and outraged by perceived... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

explores many issues in the construction of large-scale buildings: how to envision such a project, how to manage the architects, how different designs add value, and what criteria matter in resolving a dispute between designers. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost Harvard Business School Case 209-067 The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation."... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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