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- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Questions To Be Answered What's the best bonus program to boost sales productivity? Can companies inspire heroism in employees? Can employers promote moral behavior? Does money lead to creativity? What's The Best Bonus Program To Boost Sales Productivity? Do Bonuses...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Jun 2015
- News
Responsible investment: Vice versus nice
- 01 Nov 2014
- News
Smart Connected Products: Killing Industries, Boosting Innovation
- 23 Oct 2014
- News
Transparency in support of innovation
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
Amy Cuddy - Social Psychologist, Dancer
- 19 Mar 2012
- News
It Pays to Be Happy: The Progress Principle at Work
- Web
Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online
1$1,850Certificate Strategy Execution Professor Robert Simons Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization. 8 weeks, 5-8 hrs/weekApply by July 8$1,850Certificate Power and Influence...
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- 10 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Birds of a Feather ... Enforce Social Norms? Interactions Among Culture, Norms, and Strategy
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by Hongyi Li and Eric J. Van den Steen
- October 2003
- Article
The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
This paper describes board size and composition and investigates the role of venture capital in a sample of 1,116 firms' initial public offerings. First, firms backed by venture capital have fewer insider and instrumental directors and more independent...
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Governing and Advisory Boards;
Venture Capital;
Initial Public Offering;
Managerial Roles;
Power and Influence
Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering." Journal of Law & Economics 46, no. 2 (October 2003): 569–598.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management
By: Robyn C. Meeks, Jacquelyn Pless and Zhenxuan Wang
This paper examines how digitalization impacts public service provision through a study of the U.S. power sector. We exploit the staggered timing of electric utilities’ investments in “smart” meters and find that electricity losses per unit sold decrease by 3.6%. This...
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Electric Utility;
Energy Management;
Smart Meters;
Energy;
Climate Change;
State Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Meeks, Robyn C., Jacquelyn Pless, and Zhenxuan Wang. "Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management." MIT CEEPR Working Paper Series, No. 2023-22, December 2023.
- 10 Apr 2023
- Video
Career Journeys | Laetitia Tiani Vessah
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide whether to recommend an investment in ABB India. The decision pits economic development-supplying energy to impoverished rural...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
Data-driven decision-making is a powerful tool. A first step to successfully deploying such tools is to have clear (measurable) objectives and think through tradeoffs. Ask yourself: what is the metric that I care the most about, and for...
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- December 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Heavy Metal (A): Baosteel Enters Brazil
What is Baosteel, a top Chinese steelmaker, doing in Brazil? The company is responding to the Chinese government's "go global" policy and to the possible rise in iron ore input costs. But steel mills are complex, capital-intensive projects, and Brazil is an emerging...
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Global Business;
China;
Developing Countries;
Latin America;
Industrial Development;
Strategy And Execution;
Analysis;
Industrial Analysis;
Heavy Industry;
Country Analysis;
Brazil;
Economic Analysis;
Natural Resources;
Infrastructure;
Planning;
Capacity Planning;
Contingency Planning;
Demand Planning;
Competition;
Core Competencies;
Corporate Strategy;
Strategic Positioning;
Five Forces;
Bargaining Power Of Suppliers;
Globalization;
Government and Politics;
Policy;
Emerging Markets;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Mining;
Steel Industry;
Mining Industry;
China;
Brazil
Abrami, Regina M., and Iacob Koch-Weser. "Heavy Metal (A): Baosteel Enters Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 912-411, December 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- 16 Jul 2010
- News
Facing the Wreckage Head-on
- 04 Aug 2021
- News