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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged to four View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
sustainability" companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies- termed "low sustainability" companies. In particular, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
close association between the characteristics of actors’ environment and the processes of network formation among actors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50445 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
the probability of a borrowing firm becoming a target. We find that this effect is enhanced in cases where the target and acquirer have a relationship with the same bank and is robust to the inclusion of several firm characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2022
- Case
Atlanta Ransomware Attack (A)
By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev
This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Information Technology; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Society; Public Administration Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
Goldenberg, Amit, and Julian Zlatev. "Atlanta Ransomware Attack (A)." Harvard Business School Case 923-009, August 2022.
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
place several unique institutional characteristics such as a universal healthcare system that emphasized preventive care and a systematic government protocol of testing and tracing, developed after the MERS outbreak in 2015. Furthermore,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
2008) overcomes many limitations of established linear and non-linear econometric solutions in the study of bounded data. In this study, we review the econometric characteristics of the FRM and propose its applicability to a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
linguistic networks—that is networks that share knowledge on design languages. The paper describes the different configurations and the characteristics of these linguistic networks according to the strategy and features of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
What is missing by defining health, as we do today, as a public good? Michael Chu: What are the fundamental characteristics that we need for an effective response to poverty? Poverty is defined by three billion people living on less than... View Details
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Module 5 Structural Ambidexterity Understand the key characteristics of an ambidextrous organization and corporate explorer. Differentiate between three innovation phases—ideate, incubate, and scale—and what constitutes the successful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it examines the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
instrumental in setting up the Center. Sahlman has identified four characteristics that make the area unique: the rapid pace of change, a highly evolved infrastructure, a culture of entrepreneurship, and extraordinary efforts by and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing... View Details
Keywords: April White