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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
about needs and generate peer pressure for giving. And different locales do seem to have developed different conceptions of what is appropriate activity in this realm. In Silicon Valley, it is well known that corporate social action is very results-oriented, engendered...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
differences materialized among nonnative speakers as a function of diverse linguistic and national backgrounds. I discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for status, achieved characteristics, and language in...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
your key success factors, if you will? And how does that show up in terms of your workforce? What type of skills do you need, and how’s that changing, given all that’s going on in healthcare, but also with technology?Hickey: Our big competitors are the big nationals,...
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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
investigate whether stocks in the euro area have moved from a regime in which national stock markets were priced with discount rates that were predominantly country specific, to a regime in which national...
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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
rigor, it is hard to understand the significance of this empirical literature, and quite easy to dismiss it as anecdotal and unscientific. Third, many business historians still work within national frameworks. As a result, much literature...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
in Reform-Era China By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—Although comparative politics is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries, the field has a longstanding and increasingly prominent tradition in national contexts;...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
countries whether to participate in the United Nations Global Compact. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47799 Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Beginning Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest Self-reports in Comparison to Signing at the End Authors:L. Shu, N. Mazar, F. Gino, M. Bazerman, and D. Ariely Publication:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase, her firm became highly profitable. In 2004, however, one of her four analysts lost a lot of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a...
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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
known—frameworks that address how companies, as well as nations and regions, gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how strategic thinking can address society's most pressing challenges, from environmental sustainability...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Carter also has to consider the implications for Gaga's partners, including the concert promoter Live Nation and the William Morris Endeavor agency. What is the best strategy? Designed to help students understand the decisions that helped...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the National Institutes of Health. She also served on the Obama administration technology policy committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. We’ll talk about Coursera’s evolution from the massive open online course—or MOOC—environment...
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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
changed naturally. That's what you want." Abdu S. Mukhtar (MBA '01), who worked for the National Kidney Foundation of Singapore (NKFS), became a nonprofit fellow the summer after he graduated from HBS, an unusual but not unprecedented...
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