Internal Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and local governments will reach approximately $450 billion. Although per-pupil spending has more than doubled in real dollars over the last thirty years, student achievement has remained stagnant. U.S. students look mediocre, or worse,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

exporting to 32 countries and had manufacturing plants in Brazil and Uruguay. As it continued its international expansion, should it follow the same vertical integration strategy in other countries, or should it develop its retail... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-052.pdf Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe By: Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv Abstract—This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

augment the role to that of service integrator to achieve his internal objective of business unit collaboration and to provide clients with a single point of contact across the full range of the company's offerings. The organizational... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2003
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What Your Competition is Telling You

"You want to add something to the mix that makes you different." David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School, agrees. The smaller player is often well... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate governance practices across legal families... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

founders faced new internal and external pressures; particularly worrisome was the entry of auction giants Christie's and Sotheby's into the market. The Vaziranis' main challenge now is to consolidate their leading position in the market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Fraud Allegations and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other states, and coordination with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

The aversion is equally strong whether tax revenue goes to the U.S. government or back to the experimenter (a “laboratory tax”). We discuss the implications of our results for the relationship between labor supply and taxation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomer Self-Expression Authors:Dan Cable, Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details