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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
years, business historians have often been fringe players in the study of globalization, while political historians, economists, sociologists, and political scientists have taken it forward in exciting ways...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
among those who think they have nothing to lose. Western governments have also come to appreciate that the world's financial system, which came close to meltdown on several occasions in the 1990s, depends on political stability to sustain...
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by George C. Lodge
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
does not seem to explain the higher level of firm diversification. However, we find that Chinese state-owned enterprises diversify their operations more aggressively than other Chinese firms. Research limitations/implications—Ownership data and business group View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In particular, we examine how FASB members' and SEC commissioners' length of tenure, past...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager and sports director of the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
been met would substantially curtail illicit financial flows,” says Baker. “I believe in the power of the signature.” For its part, the World Bank cites five elements as key to reducing corruption: increasing political accountability;...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
university and system-wide initiatives. She is also affiliate faculty of the George Washington School of International Affairs in Leadership Studies and faculty emeritus for the RISE San Diego Urban Leadership Program that trains and...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active faculty View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and information asymmetries, they can also...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that, after CEO turnover, divisions not previously affiliated with the new CEO receive significantly more capital expenditures than divisions through which the new...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
Long-standing obsession: cricket. (He supports Pakistan’s national team.) Amyn helped organize the first trek to Pakistan and also participated in the Alpha Fund, a student-run hedge fund affiliated with the HBS Investment Club. What’s...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing home page, and with new offerings for advertisers and affiliates as well as video...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price discrimination and advertising. For vouchers to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
learning process. Garvin: Faculty could be expanded in creative ways. Think of Harvard Medical School. It has incoming classes of 165 students and 10,000 faculty! It's an astonishing number that makes sense only after you realize Harvard has 17 View Details