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- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
predicted by an agency perspective on corporate tax avoidance. An exogenous change in tax regulations that affected the ability of some firms to avoid taxes is used to construct instruments for tax avoidance activity. The IV estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
wings that cover four city blocks. Whether it's eking out extra room from unused air shafts, building up, or renovating existing gallery space to make more efficient use of it, construction at the Met is almost nonstop, a fact that is... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
scholars of economics, history, and political science, we bring an interdisciplinary approach to constructing and revising the BGIE Twenty, and we intend for it to have pedagogical and intellectual impact beyond our classrooms. The ideas... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
and time), across cultures with differing tolerance for ambiguity in relationships (the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria), and is distinct from related constructs such as generosity, conscientiousness, fastidious, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Business School Case 717-431 Elon Musk's Big Bets Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and scope of Tesla’s business. In late 2014, Tesla began View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
field when leaders at the top establish the support structure to make further leadership possible. Leaders construct and reinforce the cornerstones of confidence, as shown so vividly in the turnarounds I have described. The mission... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
operating clause would scare off anyone who might wish to buy the Patriots and move the team to another city. It would also deter local buyers who might have hoped to swing a public-private deal to construct a new facility. For Kraft, it... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
of the President’s Export Council. Do you have any perspectives to share from your work in that particular post? American business is trying to find the most constructive way to engage with the Obama administration. I happen to think that... 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
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the redistricting process to be politically neutral for the most part, though a few politicians who were advisory members... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
credentializing strategies (Power, 1992); they mobilized and drew on different cultural resources to construct the reliability of their techniques and to discredit and "minoritize" the others. This credibility contest was won by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Japanese government model had profound costs that were unrecognized. Protecting local industries such as the construction industry or agriculture seemed pretty innocuous, but it had huge costs that were hidden for a long time by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
explores many issues in the construction of large-scale buildings: how to envision such a project, how to manage the architects, how different designs add value, and what criteria matter in resolving a dispute between designers. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
under construction in Boston, Massachusetts, but before going any further, the two leaders plan to discuss what they have learned so far from their U.S. experience and how that should inform their strategic growth decisions moving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
incentives to engage with shareholders. Misaki Capital was founded in 2013 with a strategy of constructively engaging with portfolio firms, providing operational and financial advice to management in order to improve shareholder value.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne