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  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

utility. The federal debt could be at $20 trillion, the top income tax rate at 45%, and the S&P 500 at 418. Ferguson, a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School, imagines that to be the worst-case scenario. The Breakdown, as Ferguson calls it,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

increase of 285% of a standard deviation in income. We also present different estimates of adaptation across subgroups. For example, we find that those on the right (left) of the political spectrum adapt to status (income) but not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the firm. Through a three-year case... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Rival Visions

exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... View Details
  • 13 Sep 2016
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September 13, 2016

behavior should be considered a critical leadership skill. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50320 Summer 2016 California Management Review Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

different review settings. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mluca/OptimalAggregation.pdf International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance By: Foley, C. Fritz, and Kalina Manova Abstract—An emerging new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard Business School Case 407-028 Bill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

therefore a critical issue for all young firms. Most firms start out small, and small size makes them vulnerable to failure. Large firms almost always possess sufficient slack resources that buffer them from the vagaries of their environment and have View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

turnout among those who would have registered anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in the elections, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. Overall, these results suggest that easing registration requirements could... View Details
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

School Case 308-094 After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2022
  • News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

change, we need to get to net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this goal is possible, but it will require nothing less than a national and international mobilization to support economy-wide decarbonization across agriculture, buildings,... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the... View Details
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

individuals at global companies around standards promulgated in the most prominent international ethical codes and (2) the level of adherence of companies to those standards. Second, with my colleague Andrew Molinsky, I am in the thick of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

http://hbr.org/product/what-makes-analysts-say-buy/an/F1211B-PDF-ENG The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

the labor market but do not result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—The author, a professor of negotiation at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne