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- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
across and within those markets. Recent changes in the economics of unconventional natural gas extraction-"the shale revolution"-could potentially remake those markets, steering the world toward the "golden age" of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
primarily at auditors (both external and internal), risk managers, accountants, CFOs, and consultants, Effective Auditing for Corporates covers the following: 1) compliance and the corporate audit, 2) fraud detection, 3) risk-based auditing, 4) the development of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
(retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
to try to understand the boundaries of giving away intellectual property for free versus having it closed. We have not reached any formal conclusions. We are seeing possibilities that we need to rethink our intellectual property strategies. It’s really a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50066 Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study adaptation by financial intermediaries as a response to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
and how. It's about understanding consumer needs, not asking them what they want." Several questioned the way some think about the development of products of any type in a rapidly changing business environment. As V. P. Kochikar put it,... View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
Gabarro, an expert on human resources management; Tom DeLong, who studies organizational change and globalization in professional service firms and served as Chief Development Officer of Morgan Stanley Group; Herminia Ibarra, who focuses... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply learning is a process whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
motivating those who already did support them to go out and vote. The knock-on-door effect But just because the candidates couldn’t change minds doesn’t mean minds can’t be changed. That’s the result from Pons’ final study, Will a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
case:http://hbr.org/search/313001-PDF-ENG MF Global: Changing Stripes Clayton Rose, Yasmin Dahya, and Jenevieve LeeHarvard Business School Case 312-105 Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. Eighteen months later, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
challenges that the food system of the future presents: a changing climate, booming global population, the need for increased production of nutritious foods, and scarce land and water resources among many other challenges. Both Dr. and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
months of the external financing activity. It may be that in an attempt to garner investment banking business, analysts have strategically become overly optimistic as they sense that firms are considering capital issuances." Can you... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
also apparent using only portfolio investment responses to within-country corporate tax rate changes in a panel from 1994 to 2005. Investors appear to alter their portfolio choices to circumvent home and host country institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
partaking of many in strategy making. The paper contributes to theory by relating the current findings to the literature on the connection between commitment and performance and on the strategic management literature that focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in corporate culture aimed at promoting a positive bond with consumers based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Published in this month’s issue of Strategic Management Journal, the researchers examined data on how many violations different teams exposed at the same factory—which, all things being equal, was an indication of a more effective audit.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne