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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
with Lula and had to decide what to do to attenuate these political pressures. What could Agnelli do to deal with political pressures at home? Was the purchase of large vessels to ship iron ore to Asia a good decision at a time when the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
primary sources of institutional change become especially apparent when one considers large-scale institutions such as healthcare, academic disciplines, or social services, which are nested within or cut across a variety of institutional...
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- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70 million) and II ($250 million) emphasized careful targeting of sectors and in-depth work to develop the portfolio companies post-acquisition. With the industry's greater velocity and deal size, can...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
expert witness, dealing with governmental organizations, working with schools and students, and influencing public policy, this volume helps social scientists forge the vital link between scholarship and social engagement. Contributors...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made opportunistic earnings management more challenging. Our evidence highlights a novel channel through which uncertainty affects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
the future strategy of the company. The company had become profitable after years of losses, but other problems had surfaced; competition had increased heavily in many markets and advertising—the free newspaper's only source of income—was...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models and formulate strategic...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
editors at Harvard Business Press, suggested the Times project to me; and as a historian I thought it would be a terrific opportunity to gain deep exposure to the primary source reporting that newspapers afford. When I was doing research...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
of the design of crowdfunding platforms can therefore be understood as attempts to deal with attendant "free-rider" problems in motivating contributions. Reviewing institutional features of today's crowdfunding, we clarify that...
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- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
changed the accounting standards of various country-pairs, we examine how two sources of changes in accounting distance-(i) change due to IFRS adoption of the investee and (ii) change due to IFRS adoption in the investor's country-affect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
tightly controls its search engine technology that is the core of its advertising profits. In a similar way, Facebook uses open source code to run its site and has recently opened up the design of its data centers, but closely guards its...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
all female leaders must deal with ambivalent reactions rooted in gender stereotypes. Generally, the assertive, dominant behavior typical among leaders tends to be viewed as atypical and unattractive in women. Studies of attitudes toward...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
worth of a new industry. Analyses of data from multiple sources revealed that framing by early entrepreneurs and the socio-cognitive processes that resulted from the transactions of field-constituents with the new industry constructed the...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a much better deal from the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208019 Tetra Pak Argentina Harvard Business School Case 708-402 Deals with the hands-on management of a difficult situation facing the subsidiary of a multinational...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—:software, animation, and mobile telephony-we illustrate two key View Details
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Martha Lagace