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The Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Europe and Eurasia
Published:October 7, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Author:Rawi E. Abdelal Executive Summary: The concept of good old-fashioned realpolitik-politics primarily shaped by practicality and power-has...
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Will CEO Compensation Publicity Bring Reform?
Published:October 8, 2010Author:Jim Heskett Early in the Gulf of Mexico oil-rig explosion and leak disaster, BP agreed to activate a camera fixed on the source of the leak. Some people believe that...
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It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won't
Published:October 11, 2010Author:Carmen Nobel Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female...
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Crashes and Collateralized Lending
Published:October 12, 2010Paper Released:April, 2010Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Executive Summary: This paper presents a framework for understanding the contribution of systematic crash...
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Employee Selection as a Control System
Published:October 13, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Author:Dennis Campbell Executive Summary: One of the most powerful tools that an organization has to achieve its goals is the ability to hire...
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As President George Bush's point man in Iraq, Paul Bremer cut an unmistakable figure--who could forget photos of Bremer clad in impressive suits and dust-covered combat boots? A recent case looks at...
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How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
Q&A with:Robin GreenwoodPublished:October 13, 2010Author:Staff For the last decade or so financial institutions have relied increasingly and excessively on short-term financing, risky business...
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Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring
Published:October 14, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Andrew Hill and David Thomas Executive Summary: While there has been a steady rise in the number of black executives in corporate...
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach to Execution
Date of Event:May 10, 2010 Speakers:Robert Simons Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Faculty Research Symposium 2010 presentation. View a full summary from the link below. Business managers...
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A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity
Published:October 16, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Executive Summary: Can the government do anything to discourage short-term...
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Venture Capital's Disconnect with Clean Tech
Published:October 18, 2010Author:Carmen Nobel MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded...
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Mom told us that giving to others makes us happier. Now new research backs her up. In a chapter for the new book, The Science of Giving, researchers including Harvard Business School's Michael Norton...
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The Impact of Supply Learning on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation...
Published:October 19, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Executive Summary: "Supply learning" is the process by which customers predict a...
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Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Published:October 20, 2010Author:Christian Ketels Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do...
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Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation
Published:October 20, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Authors:Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Executive Summary: While start-up firms are key to any technological revolution, they also run a high...
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HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social...
Published:October 20, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and...
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Panel on Pedagogical Innovations in MBA Courses
Date of Event:May 10, 2010 Speakers:Ray Gilmartin, Joseph Lassiter, Youngme Moon, Nitin Nohria Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Faculty Research Symposium 2010 presentation. View a full...
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HBS Cases: Tesco's Stumble into the US Market
Published:October 25, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many...
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When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice
Published:October 26, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna W. Halaburda Executive Summary: Platforms such as video games and smartphones need to attract users,...
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As companies turn their attention to emerging countries such as the BRIC nations, does it make sense that they ignore huge multicultural markets in the United States, some of which are larger than...
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