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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
members alike can use to gauge their security preparedness. In practice, the defense looks like this: Some frontline security officer gets an alert that there is suspicious activity on the company’s network—a spike in data flowing out of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating an enormous global View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund managers to incorporate ESG... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
true in the work I do in Sri Lanka, is that the technical solution is easy,” he reflects. “It’s navigating the human side that’s much harder—that’s what I found in my LEAD cases at HBS. There’s never an A, B, C sequence that you can put into a View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
individuals. Deep support is not just an enhanced version of conventional customer service. Nor can it be reduced to a flow of goods. Instead, products and services merely punctuate the ongoing relationships between individual end... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast but uneven. We find that aid... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
resources furnished by its partners. Receptivity in turn portrays how organizational capabilities and the quality of ties to partners facilitate flows of network resources. We propose that the interplay of these three mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
number of days a loan remains in syndication. Using market-level and cross-sectional variation in time on the market, we find that a shorter syndication period is associated with a lower final interest rate. The relation is robust to the use of institutional fund View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- Web
Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
education as well as the government support for basic R&D can create opportunities to found companies that can have global impact. Often these companies enjoy a cost advantage as local labor may be cheaper than similar technical talent in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
board’s agenda, and the flow of information. Proposals to separate the chairman and CEO posts only when a new CEO takes office have not worked because as long as other CEOs remain chairmen, there is the appearance of a demotion and loss... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
unionized, it paid well, offered benefits, and was secure. But manufacturing employment has steadily declined, from about 25% of the U.S. labor force in 1970 to less than 10% today. Now a decent living entails more than a generous wage;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S co-moves positively with output in both N and S. After calibrating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
success, and there can be marketplace failures. I'll discuss labor markets like the market for new economists as well as markets for new lawyers and doctors that have suffered from the unraveling of appointment dates to well before... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
ecosystems, hierarchy is an architectural property that refers to the degree to which transactions proceed in a single direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." It is often assumed that a unidirectional flow of goods... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
competitiveness in the face of the territorial extent of the United States and its ability to integrate a dynamic industrial sector with ample raw material supplies, agriculture commodities, markets, and labor into one national economy.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel