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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
considerable amount of high-quality research has been done regarding financial stability. Some of these steps were prompted by regulatory changes—or anticipation of such changes. But perhaps the biggest force in stabilizing the financial...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
future? George C. Lodge: Bureaucratic inertia is strong. Big organizations do not like change. There is considerable mutual suspicion among MNCs, NGOs, and multilateral organizations. They are all busy doing what they are doing. There are...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A New Industry Emerges Not so long ago, real estate development looked and acted like modern-day "cowboy capitalism." "From the '70s to...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the entrepreneurs themselves. Across a field setting (three...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
ingrained in our capitalist system, and the conceptual and practical problems presented by this doctrine and related theory of the firm. Next, I propose an alternate, principle-based guideline for corporate purpose that blends Aristotle’s theory of reciprocal justice...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using traditional approaches to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
which habits can lead people to make suboptimal decisions; for thinking too much, we discuss research documenting the ways in which careful consideration of attributes, and careful consideration of options,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
"G" (governance) component of ESG reporting. The governance matters we identify in this paper must be addressed before turning our attention to the broader set of ESG considerations in credit...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
considerable energy to reconstructing Winfrey's life and the path she had forged before founding Harpo (Oprah spelled backwards) Productions. The women saw the project as an entrepreneurial story, according to Koehn, the story of...
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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
on the bidder. Also describes how bidders can set up tender offers to avoid poison pills. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208061 Evaluating M&A Deals—Introduction to the Deal NPV...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14085 PublicationsPublic Action for Public...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With the new vision setting...
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Sean Silverthorne