Foreign Direct Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2021
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The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

also finds that, when people are part of a group, nostalgia for an event shared within it makes people more committed to the group. Nostalgia brings the social self online. It increases social agency and directs that agency toward helping... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005

Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. To cover expenses and support her parents she worked first as a Mary Kay sales rep-resentative, then as an investment analyst, running to the office after classes and staying well into... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

strategies to the unique contexts of emerging markets—and instill in their organizations an organizational openness to experiments. Zain's One Network and Microsoft's FonePlus are only two examples of successful emerging market experiments. Position Your Business as a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

suggested that the benefit of separating the new venture had to do with securing resources for it. However, our research found that parent organizations invested roughly the same amount in integrated ventures as they did in independent... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

difficult-to-quantify constructs like meaning-making seem less useful as an analytical construct. Put more crudely, return on investment makes for a more tractable dependent variable than meaning. Q: How do you think leadership matters to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2016
First Look

April 12, 2016

to Platforms: Making the Leap By: Zhu, Feng, and Nathan Furr Abstract—Following the path of companies such as Apple and Amazon, more and more firms are trying to become not just product purveyors but also platform providers, facilitating View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

way of lifting people up and limiting the damage—and preventing the current economic crisis from getting dramatically worse, or triggering a financial collapse. But equally important, in my view, is investing as much as we possibly can to... View Details

27 Nov 2006
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Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

high-reliability organizations give rise to a distinctive way of thinking—workers direct attention at failure (rather than success) and are concerned with reliability (rather than efficiency)—leading to better outcomes. The concept of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

your photographs captioned? Can site text be increased in size? Do these questions deepen or become inestimably more complex if axes of race, gender, class, ability, (in)accessibility and any others are applied? If design is invested in... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

mentoring successful cleantech companies. Some highlights: Why there is no such thing as cleantech, there is only money; Avoiding the cleantech fallacy; Pre-marketing your product to avoid problems later; Prioritizing your prospects quantitatively; Finding and managing... View Details

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly plan of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

behavior and ways to counter it with information on why to give. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50771 Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign... View Details

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime avoidance. Moreover, protection activities by one group can displace crime onto another group. We take advantage of a dramatic increase in crime rates in Argentina... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

limited in investment banking in the 1970s, ended up working in advertising for a number of years before starting her own successful real-estate business in Washington, D.C. "I don't take orders well," she laughs. "As time went on, it... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Print View - Course Catalog

students pursuing full-time careers in real estate and for those interested in understanding their own homes and personal investments through direct ownership, partnerships, or securities. It is also an... View Details

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

will require additional capital. “Outside investment is a possibility,” Exley says. “However, maintaining autonomy is a priority. We know where we can add value, and we are committed to our mission. By moving forward as a for-profit,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person in this stage became a corporate officer or a View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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