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  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Reimagining the MBA

Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

investors speculate, even mild diagnostic distortions generate substantial bubbles. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55653 Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices By: Buell,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

subsequent increases in firm value. We show that companies increase performance on immaterial issues because of agency problems, low awareness of the materiality of ESG issues, and attempts to divert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have excelled, the majority of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • Blog Post

BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up

company size is important for anyone looking to join a start-up. Have a sense of how you would perform given the challenges of wherever the firm is in its growth. What are the operations like? Amid all the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1934217 Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions in Grand Strategy By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This paper proposes an approach for modeling strategic interactions that incorporates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Jamal Motlagh

From an early age, Jamal Motlagh was immersed in the figurative waters of business – his father is a civil engineer who successfully launched his own firm – and in literal water itself. "I've been swimming since I was three,"... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 29 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

customers to behave differently. When we observe this happening in the field, we seek to identify what factors are driving the behavior—whether they stem from the customer or firm side of the encounter—isolate their respective effects,... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

number of US organizations with over a hundred employees is well over a hundred thousand. In the year 1900, the number of firms that did business around the world, on all continents, was very close to zero. Today the number is so large it... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism" has been blamed for everything from the decline of the U.S. automobile industry to the low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with driving strategic planning in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2025
  • News

If I Knew Then

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1   Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

salary allocations to online ad clicks to admission decisions.   Working PapersSecurities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S. Authors:Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We study securities litigation risk faced by foreign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne