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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
that demographic stability affects the community composition of organizational forms, and we also investigate arguments about a community's income distribution, age distribution, population trends, geographic sprawl, and commuter...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
investors to keep the company afloat. Jacobs’ instinct suggests that refocusing the company on its core product and runner base would be the best way forward. However, the last round was raised on the promise of a big health vision....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
expanded a dormer or converted a breezeway. But most home-owning families stayed put, expecting to age in their homes. This experience was not unique to America. In most of the world, homeownership still carries that expectation of...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
globalization over the long run. Did globalization homogenize beauty ideals and practices? As the world globalized in the nineteenth century, there was an unmistakable homogenization of beauty ideals and practices around the world. In the View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Big Business in Japan Authors:Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 30. (Conversation) Abstract At age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
greater marriage age gaps, increased marital abuse, lower reported autonomy, and poorer health. My results are robust to a TS2SLS specification employing distance to a major health center as my instrument. As the first cohort of females...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
division payoffs, while non-binding talk focusing on competitive reasoning moves parties away from equal divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that manipulated pre-game talk and spontaneous within-game dialogue lead to the same results. An View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
privatized by the Romanian state in 2004 and acquired by Austrian oil company OMV, with the state retaining a 20.6% stake in the company. The situation was particularly challenging for the foreign investor since the sector in which the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
so-called "enrollment crisis" in IS education, especially with the generation of "digital natives" who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment that compete...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
geographical and physical condition.” KevinJFichtner focused on implementation. “Anyone at any age can be inspired to accomplish something that is truly important to him or her I think it depends on how the goal is incentivized.” Ed Hare...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of a “spray and pray" investment approach—where investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
are less likely to do so with increasing age and greater geographical scope. We also find a strong trend toward unbundling over time, a result that is partially explained by increases in media prices over time. Download the paper from...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
and for a broader audience than just theoretical economists. Both, of course, lived to see the age of ninety and then some. And despite their sharply contrasting views of political economics (Friedman regarded Galbraith as a socialist),...
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by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
strongly negatively correlated with the value factor. The evidence suggests that public sentiment influences investor views about the value of corporate sustainability activities and thereby both the price paid for corporate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
Following the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, the technology business went through a gloomy period, 2001-2002, when innovation dried up, MBAs looked for careers in finance, and investors put their funds in a holding pattern....
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants’ age at arrival to the United States. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51811 2016 Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
choices; fewer children opted to behave fairly, however, when they could be unfair to others yet appear fair to the experimenter. In Experiment 3, we explored the development of this concern with appearing fair by using a wider age range...
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Sean Silverthorne