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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
and study of the Great American Business Leaders database. The project identified and analyzed the accomplishments of some 860 top executives in the 20th century, and results are now starting to emerge. A portion of the database is free... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial activity and the dynamics of organizational sectors. How Should We Pay for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
the causes of those violations and potential remedies. Restoring a healthy balance in how scholars conceive of business may provide one component of a remedy. Scholarly attention to ethics and values does indeed have an impact on business leaders' self-conception and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business model innovation once it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than their private equity peers. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is more exposed to aggregate shocks. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
topic for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-016.pdf Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples Authors:Claus-Jochen Haake, Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract We consider two-sided matching markets with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
The American regulatory agencies, described by Henry Kaufmann as "...less than robust... Understaffed, under-funded, and badly fragmented," have been, in his words, "slow to recognize some of the more serious abuses" in the View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
contrast, “we cause disasters that happen to ourselves,” he said. But there’s a built-in tension between having the state protect businesses from failure and allowing financial evolution to take its course, View Details
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS
organization about how the work gets done? Is it a “face time” environment or results driven environment? These are all play into work/life balance and how happy you are. Learn a little bit about some industries you might be interested... View Details
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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
work closely with Mayor Menino and senior members of his administration.” In his role, Nicolette spent time working for the superintendent and CFO of Boston Public Schools, helping address a budget shortfall just after the 2008 financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Prison. This was the result of Iran’s state-sanctioned persecution of Bahá’ís, which continues to this day. I was two years old. It was freezing in Idaho Falls when we landed but the local Bahá’í community welcomed us at the airport with... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
government has outsourced these inspections to the private sector. Analyzing millions of emissions tests, we find empirical support for our hypotheses that particular product portfolios and forms of governance can mitigate moral hazard. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Measuring the Financial Results of Nonprofit Organizations and is designing an MBA course based on this material. Her latest research examines the factors that make for effective nonprofit management. The... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the ultimate result being a $40 million deficit. The district had already been placed on financial watch, with the very real possibility of a state takeover looming. Cognetti had been reading about the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne