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- April 2008
- Teaching Note
China Resources Corporation (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Dennis Campbell
Teaching Note for [107013] and [107015].
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- 2006
- Working Paper
Too Motivated?
I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details
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Governance Controls;
Employees;
Wages;
Measurement and Metrics;
Outcome or Result;
Performance;
Agency Theory;
Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Too Motivated?" Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4547-05, April 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro During his 11 years in the Israeli Air Force, Shimon Elkabetz (MBA 2017) had several near-death experiences related to weather. Once he flew into a foggy cloud bank after the View Details
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
strengths and weaknesses of the development strategy of this small country as set forth by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who ruled from 1995 to 2013. In 2013, for the first time in Qatar's history, Emir Hamad passed on control of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper...
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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth; exploring the relationship between business and democracy; and the role entrepreneurs and firms, not governments or markets, have played in driving globalization. "Important subjects...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 2010
- Working Paper
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital...
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Business Startups;
Energy Generation;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-020, August 2010.
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
NDAs, contractual arrangements and other legal protections for corporate assets and opportunities, and governance and control under VCs); Employment Relationships (certain legal aspects of developing,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
in foreign countries. "Some of the governments are quite small, and they like dealing directly with the person who makes decisions in the company," he explains. "There's more flexibility involved than there would be with a larger...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
trying to create sustainable management practices? I’d say issue number one is governance. A lot of the logging that goes on is illegal. And a lot of the fishing practices are illegal. Half of the catch in the Bering Sea off the coast of Russia, for example, is View Details
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Roger Thompson
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk, and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111003-PDF-ENG Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future? David J. Collis and Mary FureyHarvard Business School Case 711-457 When global warming concerns caused governments around the world to ban the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
PR, media buying, marketing research, etc.) captured by firms controlled by the four largest holding companies has remained a stable 25 percent for the past decade. This figure is roughly half the estimates often reported in the trade...
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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the...
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by Robert Simons
- May 2001
- Case
Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate (Abridged)
By: David A. Moss
Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in 19th century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Change Management;
Trade;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Conflict of Interests;
Competitive Advantage;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Great Britain
Moss, David A. "Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 701-140, May 2001.