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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada’s roommate. “As a kid, I’d get a steady dose of, ‘You need to start thinking beyond yourself. There’s so much you can do in terms of impacting society.’ As a result, I actually did grow up thinking that, and felt it was my... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
be taken into consideration when deciding on the length of the school day and the frequency and duration of breaks throughout the day. Second, school accountability systems should control for the influence of external factors on test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
over time. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394657 Working Papers Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
demand reimbursement from the poor. And they have fought arbitration decisions that they believe have not take into account the one-sided nature of deals, underlying corruption, and the impact of economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and, according to some measures, View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Science, the American Accounting Association, and the American Economics Association. Graduating from Cornell University in 1952, Christenson continued his education at HBS, where he earned an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
"the right environment" to promote accountability and head off future disasters. The corporate leaders we have interviewed say that culture isn't something you "fix." Rather cultural change is what you get after you've... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz (MBA '08), a director of account management at the health-care consultancy Carol Corp. (Puz continues to serve DFA in an advisory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
confluence. "For managers, working in the social sector can be more exciting than managing a business - your influence as a force for entrepreneurial change can make an impact beyond your organization," notes Associate Professor J.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
shelter–these were the everyday realities of a boyhood spent in the outskirts of London during the early 1940s. In this personal and meticulously detailed account of growing up under the stresses, daily dangers, and constant movement of... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
the United States and Germany in particular, and the United States and European Union more generally, suggests that how countries resolve tensions between protecting patients and empowering consumers will impact the international... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered accountancy and studying at the Indian Institute of Management, at Ahmedabad School, by the way, which was founded in collaboration with the Harvard Business... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
firms' hierarchies. Our findings have important implications for studying innovation in the knowledge-based economy. Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment? Authors:Joanne Horton, George Serafeim, and Ioanna Serafeim Publication:Contemporary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
predictions; (ii) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth consistent with the predictions of the neoclassical model; and (iii)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
JOSM and proposed research themes are presented in hopes that they will inspire impactful research on service operations. These themes are further developed in a companion article, “Service Operations: What’s Next?” Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Eventually there's an alternative economy of people who trust each other." The Village Promoter program, spearheaded by Masha, grew this way, eventually reaching about 58,000 small farmers. Overall, Notore's products and activities have View Details