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- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
deontological option) were more likely to suppress their emotional expressions. In Studies 2a, 2b, and 3, we instruct participants to either regulate their emotions, using one of two different strategies (reappraisal vs. suppression), or not to regulate, and we View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
ensure that the excesses of the 2000s aren't repeated. "Shadow banks"—the non-bank entities such as money market funds, hedge funds, and insurance companies that provide banking-like services—still need more regulatory oversight, given their View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
"financed payouts" are widespread, persistent, prevalent both among dividend-paying and repurchasing firms, and large in magnitude. Standard interpretations of agency or signaling theories are unable to explain this behavior. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Business School Case 709-025 In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
but is unlikely to be able to substitute weak business environment conditions. The second section then deploys a wide range of regional performance data collected for the European Competitiveness Index and the European Cluster...
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Anna Secino
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time. The contributions collected in this volume address, with undeniable pertinence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
a collection of interesting articles across the history of the paper. There were already a few publications on more specific subjects: For example, Floyd Norris, a well-respected columnist at the Times, edited a book on the history of...
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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors' View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
relationships, formed through common membership in international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and many others. One of the ways in which such organizations...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Bank loans and foreign aid to the government did not then and would not in the future reduce poverty, especially among the 80 percent of the population that lived in the countryside. Millions of rural Kazakhs had been left destitute when, with the end of communism, the...
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by George C. Lodge
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
inversions are often not greeted with a positive price reaction. In short, the view that tax avoidance is simply a net transfer of value from the state to shareholders is complicated by the agency problem between shareholders and...
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by Ann Cullen
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As a forecaster, he was best known for advising investors in the month prior to October 1929 that a "crash" was coming that...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
four billion potential customers was short-sighted, because even if their individual incomes are tiny, collectively they represent a massive business opportunity. But the myopia of the past toward this market is starting to correct...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while social cues from reputation stakeholders and...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
group behavior or evolutionary processes and can uniquely reveal non-linear dynamics and emergence—the process whereby local interactions aggregate into often surprising collective phenomena, such as spatial segregation and relational...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
relative importance of public agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and different types of private firms in developing precision medicines. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53560...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
problem: how to dispose of billions in S&L loans that were not in default. The agency came to Wall Street with a proposal to sell loan packages rather than one property at a time, an impractical approach given the volume of loans on...
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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
with the greatest increases occurring when many of these directors leave. While agency theory highlights the importance of the right incentives being in place, this research suggests that this can be ineffective if the right resources are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define View Details
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Sean Silverthorne