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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
as national actors rooted in their home countries is rapidly becoming outdated. The implications for policy makers and researchers are outlined. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
China's Huawei has recruited 1,500 engineers in India to develop software for its telecommunications products. Even the countries' state-owned oil companies, including Sinopec and ONGC, have teamed up to hunt for oil together. Multinational companies usually find that...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
countries with weak legal institutions. By implication, these findings suggest that improvements in foreign firms’ information environment upon listing in the U.S., as documented in prior literature, stem in part from the greater...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it." Still, companies around the country are managing to pick their way through such uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter,...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
to choose a home page provided by a competitor). The second principle focuses on opportunity: specifically, opportunity that is facilitated by giving developers platform access and the ability to innovate and build on platform...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
are younger. Most of the women I have interviewed say, "The time that I most want flexibility in my work, the time I most want to be staying at home instead of traveling, is when my children are teenagers." And so you can see,...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
transformed into a truly global enterprise with 127,000 employees of 153 nationalities in 140 countries generating $56.7 billion in 2012 revenues and $9.6 billion in net income, making the firm one of the world's largest and most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing political powers at the IASB and own potential political power at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these dimensions, I offer predictions, ceteris paribus, on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Republican administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush and the Democratic administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton during its implementation. It created the largest free trade area in the world at the time. Since implementation, total trade between NAFTA...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
accommodating high-risk workers. They offered the following advice, based on recent research: Encourage sick employees to stay home with paid time off Gary Johns, professor of management at Concordia University: Many employees continue to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of apology from me and included a discount coupon on a future purchase. It...
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by Susan Young
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
nonetheless was met with positive abnormal returns of U.S.-listed foreign firms in both home and U.S. markets. These abnormal returns are actually higher the greater the percentage of a firm's capital listed on non-U.S. exchanges but are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We implement the methodology in a field experiment in Zambia using...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir Abstract— Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference analysis that compares U.S. equity holdings in affected and unaffected View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
countries in 1900 and 1913. The evidence presented does not yield robust results that can sustain the hypothesis of persistence effects of legal origin, but it is not powerful enough to reject it either. Then the paper examines if there...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
discount the dangers of outsourcing production and cutting investments in R&D. Restoring the ability of enterprises to develop and manufacture high-tech products in America is the only way the country can hope to pay down its enormous...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
context effects to include social (e.g., with friends or family) and situational factors (e.g., location, such as home or store; time; weather). We define contexts as any factor that has the potential to shift the choice outcomes by...
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