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- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
it required a huge amount of travel, with communications mailed and faxed around the world. Things are obviously different now, with the Internet, satellite phone connections, and video conference calls on...
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by Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value for shareholders over the long term? The answer lies in combining the annual and CSR/sustainability reports into something I View Details
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by Staff
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
motivated both to elicit sympathy and impress others. Despite the belief that combining bragging with complaining or humility confers the benefits of each strategy, we find that humblebragging confers the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
describes a strategic meeting at which managers sat at a large conference table with scores of assistants behind them, all listening to a PowerPoint presentation and engaging in little or no discussion. He was so frustrated by the lack of...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
for more engagement at the micro level of business enterprises. While recognizing that the context of institutions, education, and culture plays a role in explanations of wealth and poverty, the paper calls for a closer engagement with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
encompass a wide array of institutions and agencies, our overview concentrates on those that the conference papers appearing in this volume focus on. We conclude that collectively, the papers contribute to significant progress, point out...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Accounting Review The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how language...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't come easy without an...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna Abstract In January 2013, Harvard Business School, in collaboration with the Journal of Accounting & Economics, will host a conference on research in corporate accountability reporting to address the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50837 Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
integrates converging work documenting the centrality of these dimensions in interpersonal as well as intergroup perception. Structural origins of warmth and competence perceptions result from competitors judged as not warm, and allies judged as warm; high status View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Nueno, Dean Rolf D. Cremer, and Co-Dean Zhang Weijiong, of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), were sitting in the boardroom of the Shanghai campus in February 2009. They made up the management committee (MC) of the school and were preparing for a...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm welfare....
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
recommendations on how future research can be enriched through a systematic examination of how entrepreneurial ventures navigate the organizational dilemmas growth presents. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52353 2017 Economic Symposium...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Risk Authors: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
allowed for different rates of evolution in different software modules and in another case conferred distinct strategic advantages on a firm (by permitting substitution of an at-risk software module without substantial change to the rest...
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Martha Lagace