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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces companies to split the CEO and board chairman positions. "The leadership at some of the nation's most renowned companies took too many...
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by Roger Thompson
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
worse. And I just, really believed that entrepreneurship and job creation was one path to creating hope and opportunity. And that was something I really wanted to learn about and be able to talk about. And...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature on gender in job negotiations from psychology and organizational...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
change the very system that has caused poverty in poor countries in the first place. Here again the profit motive would come into play. The WDC would not only provide jobs and raise incomes, it would also improve education by giving...
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by George C. Lodge
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Competitive Advantage Authors: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher Abstract Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate...
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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent with these predictions. Download the paper from SSRN...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
built at the lower end of the Charles River, some of this area had been a tidal marsh." In the 1980s, the Bulletin reported on renovations of many of the original buildings, the opening of Shad Hall, and the 1986 creation of a new master...
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- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
me is the discovery and learning of the people, because I believe any destination is different. It's because of the human creation of what people living there have done with the natural environment they are given. And so I always want to...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the manufacturing sector declined and the country transitioned to a...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of their members each year); requires that all directors receive a majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces...
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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC...
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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social safety network through the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
across industries and the concomitant demands for value creation engender variations in firms’ collaborative behaviors. On average, firms in technologically dynamic industries pursue more-open ego networks, which fosters access to new and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
and encourages the continued creation of deep knowledge within the field, as well as collaborative research across disciplines that develops and incorporates insights from service operations. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
realization that wealth creation has nothing to do with nations so much as it does with companies, professionals, global consumers, and global capital,” he notes. “Boundaries between nations are becoming thinner; companies are acquiring a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
could have when I was running Yahoo!’s operations,” Decker says. She will devote part of her EiR year to helping with the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in January and collaborating with faculty on cases related to entrepreneurial management. My...
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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S....
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Martha Lagace