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- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? Download the paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44034 Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability and how firms can use View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
M. Perkins, and Mark Weick Publication: Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (spring 2012) Abstract Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second‐largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the company has been View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
develop a micro-insurance product for the rural poor. Can it be done profitably? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212030-PDF-ENG Novo Nordisk: A Commitment to Sustainability Robert G. Eccles and Michael P....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
nonprofit dedicated to place-based media, arts, and education, to do the work. Pine Mountain’s campus reflects both its broad approach (educational programs for schoolchildren and high-tunnel greenhouses for local farmers) and its View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Recovery, and Final Disposal." Says Lorentzen, "We have to get the facts — whether good or bad — on the table to elevate the debate about paper to the highest level." For its part, Aracruz Celulose, the first Brazilian company to be listed on the New York Stock...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a mandated March 2020 shutdown, the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture...
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Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories, whose primary clients were European, U.S., and Canadian firms. Export contracts to such firms had helped Bangladesh become the world's second largest clothing exporter. Rana Plaza...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
proxy for incentive conflict) impact the use of a subset of available performance measures. Consistent with a signaling model of the allocation of contingent control rights, we find that contracts involve fewer contingent control rights...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
for its commitment to improving health care outcomes and lowering costs by reducing treatment variation, made the surprising decision to invest significant resources in an innovative precision medicine unit, which would provide...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
retention Pincus faced the choice between deepening commitment to Facebook or developing its own distribution channels. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710464-PDF-ENG CME Group Forest Reinhardt and James...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
whether to share (offer content that other peers can download) or to freeride (download from others and not offer content for others to download). Sharing content is costlier than freeriding as it entails committing computing resources...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
never-ending pipeline of empirical data and policy proposals failed to change the fact that your end of the social contract was continually violated and broken, through blatant murder, institutionalized racism, and structural disadvantage...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that choose specific peers—do a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
change in organizational culture and structure, committing to 100% renewables while placing an emphasis on growth in middle-income countries and capturing and new revenue sources from energy management services. At the same time, Starace...
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