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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
selection with intelligent design, and to extend life from the organic realm into the inorganic.” Hence a title meant to signify the elevation of humans into gods. This in itself should be enough to evoke a storm of controversy ranging...
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- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
2010 in one of the earliest high-profile controversies resulting from the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling. Target had contributed to a super PAC supporting business friendly candidates. As one of the candidate's opposition to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or nonsimultaneously...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
events associated with the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet spurred controversy reaching the highest...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
have become quite influential and controversial in the technology industries they touch. The goal of this paper is to shed light on the role and efficiency tradeoffs of these new patent intermediaries. Finally, we offer a provisional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
is knowing how to structure organizations" —Allen Grossman But controversy over the massive project persisted—an early dome-style design by Frank Gehry for the plaza was front-page fodder for critics. The New York City Opera...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811040-PDF-ENG Deferred Tax Assets in Basel III: Lessons from Japan David F. Hawkins, Karthik Ramanna, Nobuo Sato, and Mayuka YamazakiHarvard Business School Case 111-076 In a controversial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
cost, serving as a national model. Failure, on the other hand, would have high institutional costs. Dr. Joaquin Montero, the head of Ancora and its intellectual father, must address the controversial project in the context of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
which the ACA was passed and develops estimates of its likely impact on the biopharmaceutical industry. Universal insurance, either through a government-run system or by mandated purchase of private insurance, has been controversial in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
great deal of influence on U.S. companies. This case examines the history and growth of the company, the governance services it offers, the extent of its impact on shareholders, the controversy surrounding its conflicts of interest, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor of the simple and often low flat tax. Laura Alfaro: Naturally, the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
strategy—downstream integration, specifically buying up feed companies—which marked a stark departure from the company’s longtime emphasis on organic growth. The decision to buy feed companies had been controversial within Alltech: feed...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
participation in the political process to his controversial campaigns for the U.S. presidency. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/409117-PDF-ENG
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
has proved to be as controversial as was public ownership. The huge investment in infrastructure has to be paid for one way or the other, a fact that government officials in the developing world tended rather wistfully to overlook....
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- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
come as a surprise to a lot of companies who are spending a lot of money and not getting a payoff for it. Q: There's been a lot of controversy around the ethics of stem cell research and cloning. Have you been keeping an eye on that? A:...
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- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are long-lived assets that can contribute significant value to firms over time, there is no consensus on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to publish View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
different brands and categories at various stages of market development. Much of the controversy surrounding DTCA involves the question of whether advertising informs rather than persuades. Our present knowledge about the functions of...
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by Manda Salls
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
including commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Representing one of the largest DIP loans in history, this financing was considered critical to the company's survival. One unique and controversial...
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Martha Lagace