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- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
aspects of developing globally competitive businesses. Much of their growth is driven by a wealth of smart, hard working, well-educated individuals. In other words, great human capital. However, they do not have fully formed financial markets and have not been able to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
leverage their backgrounds to build their businesses and generate funding. “Harley’s business is one that really no one else would have started because it’s his past experience that created this. Tech startups are so concentrated in a... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
with the opportunity to apply for an additional three-year extension. During this period, workers can request green cards and secure permanent residency status if they desire. The current annual cap for the "regular" H1-B category is... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
other growth episodes end in reversion to stagnation or collapse. We create an analytical model that is capable of generating both transitory and sustained episodes of accelerated growth. The new feature is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner Prizes are increasingly dangled in front of inventors as a way... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
systematic is going on. It must have purpose; all the vigorous uploading, posting, commenting, and sharing must be generating results. We claim that the new order is, in fact, rule-governed, and the rules are the rules of play.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
through the cracks.” Fixing By Walking Around The program the researchers tested was modeled on Allan Frankel's "Leadership WalkRounds," which has been shown to improve safety in various medical facilities. His hypothesis was that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the potential of the framework to shed new light on traditional strategy questions, the article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
Dean's youthful Internet backing failed to generate enough votes at the polls. In the recent New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton's surprise win is attributable in part to her superior grassroots organizing there—the political... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
is doubtful that globally organized labor will be able to achieve the same purposes that have motivated unions on a national basis because "the purpose of most unions is 'the greater good' and generally not that of individual... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
reputation and brand. In general these activities create a win-win for the company and its larger group of stakeholders. Q: Many nonprofits from museums to food banks are worried about the dwindling number of donors and their future in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
is developing stem cell products to treat cancer, genetic disorders, and immune deficiencies. Keep Business Model Fluid "Know your timing," advised Susan Willet Bird, founder and president of Women.future, an organization that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
take a look at America Online. My recollection is that they had about 10,000 subscribers at that time who were paying a little less than $20 per month. That gave them a running rate of $2.4 million in gross revenues per year. I thought that that was impressive. In... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson