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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
a "great surprise," another wondered if Buffett was investing with his heart rather than his head (he was a paperboy as a child), and a third said it was a "feat of financial engineering." Virtually all of them...
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Anna Secino
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
often work directly with the companies they study. I then survey the factors that influence the quality of UGC. Quality is influenced by factors including promotional content, peer effects between contributors, biases of contributors, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Business School MBA Class of 2020, neither of them could have guessed that their efforts to negotiate on the price of their student loans would be transformed into a viable new venture. However, before they had even set foot on campus, they had saved themselves and...
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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Series, No. 15325, September 2009 Abstract Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
success over the top. You may be immune to the grosser forms of celebration—how many really believed Dennis Koslowski's financial excesses at Tyco were a sign of good business leadership?—but culture is a strong shaper of worldview. These...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could actually talk to the people and look...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Innovation Authors:Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Financial Economics Abstract We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
individual students. Oscar Tendilla was a young man, a Mexican immigrant, who gets admitted into P-TECH. His family is under severe financial circumstances, and he's significantly behind in grade eight. He believes he probably won't be...
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by Kristen Senz
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
connectivity. Should Verizon go "above the network"? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-013 Blackstone at Age 30 Since its IPO in 2007 and following the global View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
tinkering with the business model and the underlying financials and systems. The challenge we've put out for ourselves today, there's a team working on it and it's a nearly impossible one, is how do we lower the direct cost of delivery to...
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- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
magic of jobs-to-be-done in P&G. Then I said, "Okay, well, I'd like to go apply this in other places." Derek van Bever: Fascinating. All of your chemical engineering peers are leaning forward and saying, "I knew that. I knew there was a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
range of activities. It even sounded like one role was assessment—being able to see where the skills base of an organization is. A second part was benchmarking, compared to peer organizations on these key skills. To what degree does the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
our support model is, we do daily meals free on campus for breakfast and for lunch. We were thinking financial support, nutrition support. But one of the things that it has done is, it has taken our BlueSky, and it puts them into daily...
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