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  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their firms’ bottom lines. Business leaders like Tim Cook of Apple, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Marc Benioff of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

"outsiders," such as Elizabeth Arden, created their own road to success, overcoming significant odds. The new book Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership explores the demographics of leadership in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508102 The Energy Foundation Harvard Business School Case 308-078 The Energy Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established through a partnership among major donors with a mission to promote clean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

In the Blood

that of Kentucky’s established breeding farms, some of which managed over forty stallions. Clay adopted a boutique approach to guarantee personal service for both the owners and their horses, and serve as a point of differentiation to... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; horse racing; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of control variables (e.g., city and year fixed effects, population, law enforcement) and survived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990). Using rich project-level data from the U.S. film industry, we exploit variation in property right allocations, investment choices, and film... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

illustrates wonderfully just the kinds of strategy issues that many participants in SPNM face." Jatrice Martel Gaiter, the executive director of SOS-KDI's fledgling U.S. operation, elaborates on just one of the many issues the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

and service its own customer relationships and manage the effectiveness and efficiency of its sales funnel. Currently, a team of chat representatives worked with marketing to qualify and prime prospects for HubSpot’s sales team. Could... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

categories in the technology world? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709466 iPremier (A): Denial of Service Attack (Graphic Novel Version) Harvard Business School Case 609-092 Describes an IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

research to professional, media, and academic audiences. She serves as an expert witness in individual and class action discrimination cases in both the U.S. and Canada. Soraya Chemaly Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and... View Details
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has a positive effect on project efficiency but not on project quality. However, when we examine two moderators, geographic dispersion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

government relations is part of the inner circle. You can look at Turkcell and see it as a typical emerging-market story. Government intervention is everywhere. Regulators even set prices, service by service. The competition is tightly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. However, in subsequent years up to 2007, analysts progressively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

  Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

mistrustful of exotic foods." He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional kitchen could address that. From these fundamental... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017

battle competitive headwinds. Additionally, Executive Education may see declines in enrollment should travel to the U.S. be curtailed for international participants. HBX plans to introduce several new courses, and the group’s revenue is... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne