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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
earning his MBA at Harvard Business School with honors, he returned to hospitals but as a manager. A scholarship winner of the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service program, Dr. Guth has collaborated... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
him to start a back-office services firm for their insurance company clients, which grew into ReSource Pro. By year-end 2007, ReSource Pro employed 250 people, of whom only four were U.S. based. With... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
how are they likely to shape the future for media competitors, advertisers, and their agencies? HBS professor Alvin Silk has long studied such issues, and his latest findings, presented in a new working paper, "Restructuring in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
down the road?” PE managers can also teach you the value of managing cash. Most PE-acquired firms are capitalized with 70 percent debt, compared with the 40 percent average of U.S. public companies. Thus PE managers know how, in the... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
portfolios, such as exposure to climate change, remain hidden. If this disclosure void continues to exist, the competitiveness of U.S. companies and its capital market will be at risk. While not a panacea, we believe that developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
improve. The U.S. high-tech manufacturing community is perhaps furthest along with this effort; it has created a consortium called RosettaNet to develop standards at all required levels—from XML data formats to interaction scripts (called... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
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1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA
support or other duties. "Harvard officials" include: Faculty Administrators Clerical employees Professional employees Harvard University Health Services staff members Harvard University Police Department officers Agents of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Elevate The book explains the fault lines that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes some... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings Authors:Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
small changes in financial imperfections can give rise to large changes in price. We develop tests of this alternative against the null that the supply of intermediary capital is perfectly elastic. We take the U.S. catastrophe reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
they typically enter foreign markets late, only after thorough exploitation of the domestic U.S. market. By contrast, European firms tend to venture abroad earlier, into developing markets. The Europeans often export a retail format that... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Explicating Lean Principles by Examining Indian Software Services Authors:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808110 Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil Harvard Business School Case 708-042 This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
1987), have made it possible for HBS faculty to do research, conduct surveys, hold forums around the country, and publish their ideas and insights, all as part of the multiyear U.S. Competitiveness Project that has spurred additional work... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
leaders to make those hard decisions either." John argued that what is missing in MMT is that most economic theory works only within a limited range of economic conditions. “While the U.S. will benefit from MMT for perhaps a long... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
global event. That was the goal. Tell me about the program. For the Vendée Globe, we published a Teacher’s Guide for a 15-week program. Fifty U.S. newspapers published my accompanying weekly series, written live from the boat, with essays... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
effort they enjoyed wide institutional backing. Courts of law routinely supported those who made predictions based on dispassionate scientific rules rather than those who, say, enlisted the help of the stars. Many U.S. jurisdictions... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed that diversified View Details