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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Review (forthcoming) Abstract Huge amounts of money are spent on TV advertising. In an environment of rising per-viewer rates for advertisers and increased skipping past ads by consumers, it is necessary for advertising managers to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
useful and saleable by-product. The term "by-product synergy" (BPS) has been coined to describe this practice. By converting waste into by-product, the firm not only reduces its waste disposal cost and potentially increases revenue, it may reduce its View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
http://hbr.org/2010/10/unleashing-the-power-of-marketing/ar/1 Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Publication:In The Oxford...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in the level of activity of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Japan consented. We conclude that Chimerica cannot persist for much longer in its present form. As in the 1970s, sizeable changes in exchange rates are needed to rebalance the world economy. A continuation of Chimerica at a time of dollar...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
interrelated. "All other issues are either the result of or are materially affected by population growth," said one; another concurred, "Overpopulation contributes to environmental degradation. I'm pessimistic. I do not see a widely...
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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
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20 percent of total revenues. The increase reflected the University’s distribution rate and the size of the endowment, which includes gifts from alumni and transfers from the School to the endowment reserve. The HBS alumni community gave...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
host of social and political issues, from labor practices to environmental policies. In this context, hard charging and “command and control” are perhaps overly blunt instruments. I write and teach about individual leaders concerned with...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
competitiveness. We also include a number of special chapters focusing, among other things, on environmental regulations and competitiveness, a paper that was authored by Professor Porter and Professor Daniel Esty on innovation and also...
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by Staff
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a 10% decrease in a foreign...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
countries, but by firms realizing a higher spread (i.e., a greater difference in operating performance and borrowing cost) when more domestic credit is available. Also, we find that firms partially substitute trade credit for financial credit, with large firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory and tax incentives. The book...
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- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
strong brand, robust growth in international and domestic markets, and premium price and margins, Natura was consistently rated as one of the preferred places to work in Brazil. Its focus on social and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
are insisting that new construction in their cities be "green" and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. While the LEED system of classifying green construction is far from perfect, it goes a long way...
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