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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to book value); (2) Return on Assets Ratios; and (3) Market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/change-for-changes-sake/ar/1   Working PapersLimits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

run we've got to have a system that substantially readdresses leverage, transparency, and liquidity. "It will be in fact a whole new ballgame that takes many years to play out. It will be years before we figure out where the crucial financial functions lie, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

learning. We argue that once an individual has accumulated experience with a task, the benefit of accumulating additional experience is inferior to the benefit of deliberately articulating and codifying the previously accumulated experience. We explain the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2003
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Development of the Cluster Concept—Present Experiences and Recent Developments

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This review presents an overview of the current research on clusters and cluster-based economic development. It is organized in three parts: First, it takes a look at the conceptual foundations of the cluster approach, discussing the definition of clusters, the... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Development Economics; Performance; Framework; Knowledge Sharing; Policy
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  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

financial risks with targeted focus and great effectiveness. Contractual agreements, principally futures and swaps as well as options, have been central tools. Just as interest rate swaps have transformed what passive risks that banks, other financial institutions, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

Compensation and Firm Performance Authors:Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract Using a sample of 4,278 listed U.K. firms, we construct a social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

a period of two and a half years, we examine the conditions under which discretion is exercised to deviate from the assigned First-In-First-Out scheduling policy, and the performance effects of those choices. Exploiting random assignment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

partners in accomplishing go-to-market goals, two important aspects of channel management—assessing performance and setting goals—are only weakly developed and enforced. Misunderstandings of partner roles and responsibilities are common.... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the tendency to see superior performance as rooted in one's actions rather than other factors (such as luck). The second is that success feeds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

commit to funding of any particular transaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-106.pdf Leveraging Team Familiarity to Handle Uncertainty: A Resource-based View of Team Performance Authors:Heidi K. Gardner,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

point out that they may benefit politically connected capitalists or bail out inefficient firms. We study the effect of loans and equity investments of the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) and find that they do not have any consistent effect on firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

culture of making excuses for performance shortfalls. These issues not only plagued Mekong, but also the portfolio companies that they took positions in. The case recounts how the founder and managing partner of Mekong undertook a process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

work seriously. Still, we need more researchers, more doctoral students, doing case and survey research on many topics. In particular, not enough has been done to compare the issues and performance of family versus non-family companies.... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

firms' propensities to adopt new administrative and governance practices (Davis and Greve, 1997; Westphal et al., 1997). Read the paper: http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/msytch/pdfs/Sytch&Gulati.Markets.as.Networks.pdf How Do Networks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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