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- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307001 Iqbal Quadir, Gonofone, and the Creation of GrameenPhone (Bangladesh) Harvard Business School Case 807-099 As the smallest of four partners in a unique wireless...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history-here, the bulletins' repeated omission of contradictory elements in the firm's past (i.e., structural omission) or attempts to neutralize them with valued...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
sauces for entrepreneurial ecosystems: the creation and the role angels play in funding companies. Technology-enabled crowdfunding provides entrepreneurs a wider access to capital. ©iStock/merznatalia There’s been relatively little work...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
something might be done to foster the creation of wealth (and jobs) in Mexico through the removal of structural barriers that inhibit entrepreneurial behavior. However, before action might be taken to...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of classifieds), and a fixed cost...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
the IT department or needed to coordinate their launches with help from sales representatives in the field. Jim Kilts encouraged the formation of operating committees in each business unit or regional group, and then further encouraged the View Details
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- April 2010
- Supplement
The Auction for Travelport (B)
By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
This short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially...
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Competitive Advantage;
Value Creation;
Private Equity;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Industry Structures;
Initial Public Offering;
Capital Markets;
Market Transactions;
Change;
Auctions;
Travel Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Misha Sanwal. "The Auction for Travelport (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-475, April 2010.
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
either improved productivity or growth in the economy. One result may be the structural unemployment associated with long periods without a job and the obsolescence of skills that occurs with increasing rapidity in an information economy....
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
programs," he says. "The money is there at refund time. We just need to help families try to save some of it." Easy To Buy Other recommendations Tufano offers include marketing the program through volunteer tax preparers; the View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The...
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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
An entrepreneurial approach, they say, allows social organizations not only to maximize value from limited resources, but also to leverage resources beyond the organization's direct control through a creation of networks. Case studies in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
to pay the IOUs coming due." Financial markets can help that happen by offering mechanisms that enable capital to be allocated to companies and industries where it can be the most productive. The result is structural changes in the...
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by James E. Aisner
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the ability to understand industry structure and equilibrium behavior by firms. Working in a real-world setting with interdisciplinary teams on complex problems is part of the lure of the tech sector, says Athey, a pioneer in the field....
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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
everything I might have wanted, but the legislative process seldom produces that. Certain elements of this reform are positive and helpful, including the creation of a formal resolution authority and a systemic risk regulator; provisions...
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by Staff
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
information about patients is collected and tracked over time. These latter areas are where I see the questions of quality improvement, cost containment, and value creation ultimately being decided. That said, I see a government-run...
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- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates...
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Martha Lagace