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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural strength and the will of a one-party government.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory management, and View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan Publication:Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups Abstract Business groups—collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

public, going over investment projects, dividends, and share buybacks, dwelling more on this or that depending on the audience. For road show meetings, the IR group prepares comprehensive descriptions of selected investments and projects... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under which myopic policies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

Rollins, chief scientific officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, attempts to engender cross-scientist collaboration by applying project management principles to medical research. The resulting innovation, Integrative Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

project negotiations, he’s had a chance to do that. In the presidency, there will probably be negotiations — with Congress, with other nations, or with agencies or with all the people a president deals with — where you have to make a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

(and demand for redistribution) even if luck plays no role. In other words, there is multiplicity even if the equilibrium tax rate is independent of the signal-to-noise ratio (a quantity that expresses how important effort is, relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

jurists, including Louis Brandeis and institutional economist E.R.A. Seligman, supported RPM as a protection to independent proprietors. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

scientific advances beckoned but would require both funding and physical space. The Broad Institute's leaders, including Altshuler, Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, and Golub, Director of the Cancer Program, needed to decide how big was too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

conducted with two of its sponsors and five independent experts. The interviews were conducted beginning in 2003, over the four EURO project life cycles starting in 2000, with a primary focus on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social investment firm seeking a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest possible dataset covering almost sixty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

countries. The Creating Emerging Markets project is sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Business History Initiative. We spoke with Oberholzer-Gee, who conducted both interviews in early 2015, to discuss the differences and similarities... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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