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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game. Publisher's Link: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=2420198&R=10352-HBK-ENG&conversationId=129872 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that property rights arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
earnings to a local HIV charity—those who started out with the most altruistic capital. (The authors provide a detailed account of their findings in the working paper No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment for Incentives for Pro-Social... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
vis-a-vis local financial development in districts all along the route, is the first paper to connect microlevel financial development with infrastructure development. The paper, Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
2016 was the optimal way to organize third-party laundry service providers, locally sourced teams of freelancers, and in-house operations. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
(forthcoming) Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
famous fast-food formula for the local market. Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu The world is beating a path to Chef Ferran Adrià's door at elBulli, but why? In professor Michael Norton's course, students learn about marketing from... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
remove obstacles and improve local capabilities, and recruiting foreign companies to deepen local capabilities. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK...” Finally, the UK needs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or the View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
focused center, particularly if regional stakeholders become overly dominant, and the implicit goal becomes to support local industries. If this occurs, the NNMI is doomed to failure, since no one region has a monopoly on the expertise... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
away protectionist barriers in developing countries. As multinational corporations from North America, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea stormed into the emerging markets, many local companies lost market share or sold off... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
universities, local governments, and civic groups and developed an array of outreach programs to help people understand and express themselves through music. Ma was confident that there could be no better time to hand over leadership. But... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. It was therefore... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
invests substantially in a small portfolio of local nonprofits, each a market-based enterprise such a Juma Ventures, which recruits high-risk urban youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops. They closely monitor employees' progress and... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity, Second Edition, published 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. Copyright (c) 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of SNCSC. All rights reserved. You Might Also Like: Global Talent, View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
countries with higher nominal bond-stock betas have significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51643 Android and Competition Law:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne