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- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
higher tariffs should lead to higher prices and therefore to more integration. We construct firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
was level, and he took advantage. Eventually he would build Akfen Holding, today one of the biggest infrastructure construction and operations companies. “As an outsider in the previous era, this was a fantastic opportunity,” says Felix... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
company, has developed a new "cushion pad" that will improve the pile-driving process, a common activity in the construction of large structures such as bridges and buildings. Piles—heavy beams of concrete, steel, or other... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, the world’s institutions are making scant progress toward the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The central cause: top leaders lack the means to construct and implement comprehensive diversity strategies that are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
process, a common activity in the construction of large structures such as bridges and buildings. Piles — heavy beams of concrete, steel, or other material — are pounded into the ground by a large “hammer” attached to a crane. The cushion... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
C.D. Spangler Construction Co., in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over time, he expanded the family’s holdings and turned around the fortunes of the Bank of North Carolina, founded by his father, which merged with North Carolina National Bank... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
regions in America. Seawater desalination is expensive and energy intensive, but it could be a partial solution. Brian Brady and other members of the Authority need to vote for or against a financing and construction plan that includes a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological safety describes people's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
features are designed to attract foreign companies. (As of 2009, some 60,000 residents and 418 companies or research centers were in New Songdo, or pledged to be there.) Forty percent of the city, constructed around a Central Park–like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
design doesn’t need to enter the commercial arena. The perception exists that creative businesses can just start up, when in fact it takes a while for an entire ecosystem to actually generate an industry. There’s a construction of... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
there has been more and more construction in hazard prone areas. And it’s possible that the existence of federal disaster relief actually helped stimulate some of that building. The point is that if we’re going to provide the relief,... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/311083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-043 United Rentals (A) In the spring of 2008, the recession had decimated the company's core business, construction equipment rental. The economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the United States as part of its own self-contained region. Regional strategies can take a long time to implement. Leading-edge companies are starting to grapple with these definitional issues. For example, firms in sectors as diverse as View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
from the one or two products offered by Brand B." Q: You introduce the construct "assortment type" in the paper. What does the concept mean and how does it impact on brand share? What is an "alignable" assortment... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
instead take the sort of advice that they’ve constructively given to their clients for years. By using this challenging moment as an opportunity to address the root causes, they will better ensure that this situation does not arise again... View Details