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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
manufacturer, subject to unconditional, multi-year sales minimums and significant forward financial obligations. Taking out long-term bank loans, his firm has purchased modern, high-speed machinery to manufacture this line. Yet his Walmart contracts run only one year...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
reform’s biggest downside to date as the negative financial impact on the traditional “safety-net providers” — hospitals whose business models depended on subsidies they received for handling a high volume of uninsured, low-income...
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- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
locations (even if on a sofa) going for as little as $25 per night. Nightly rentals are beginning to exceed the volumes of the largest hotel chains. What happens if the chains, with much higher marginal costs, are forced to cut back on...
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- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
this edited volume come about, and what is meant by the term "broadband explosion"? Robert Austin: This book was a result of the fourth Harvard Business School Colloquium on the Computer and Telecommunications industries, which...
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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
channel partners weren't motivated to sell the product because it was disruptive to their economic model. The company quickly ramped up expenses to establish a global presence, hoping to build a steeper ramp to volume. But this increased dramatically the View Details
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by Michael Raynor
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Evolution and Resilience Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain stores as well as “pineboards,”...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Walkman? That's the unknown. The challenge is that Sony drove the Walkman into a mass audience by drastically bringing down the price. We don't know whether Apple will be able to do this successfully. They've never been very good at very high View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost. We must move away from a supply-driven health care system organized around what physicians do and toward a patient-centered system organized around what patients need. We must shift the focus from the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
me, he had tears in his eyes. He said, ‘I want you to publish this exactly as you’ve written it. We made an honest mistake, we need to own up to it, and we want others to learn from it.’ ” This very small interaction with Dean McArthur spoke View Details
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Dean
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then leaked to their best clients. We show that after large informed trades, a significantly...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
of current economic, geopolitical, and environmental concerns, this is more unacceptable than ever. This important volume details this problem, making clear the unfortunate results of such short-sighted thinking, and it proposes measures...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
An emerging optical disc technology called digital versatile disc (DVD), which will contain enough storage space to hold huge volumes of multimedia and interactive programming, is also in the works. The ability to deliver audio digitally...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
lump sums to estimations of RVU volumes if the crisis didn’t happen. My hope is that this crisis will provide the opportunity to rethink physician compensation in a way that maps physician incentives to the behaviors that generate value...
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by Danielle Kost
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
large traditional retailers. Nickell, DeHart, and Kalmikoff were now faced with making a decision about a potentially lucrative offer from a major retailer offering to carry large volumes of select Threadless t-shirts in its retail...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
effort to elevate the at-times contentious public debate over the conduct and operation of multinational corporations, this edited volume examines key questions about their role, both in their home countries and in the rest of the world...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
virtually irresistible. But long-term assessments could differ, particularly if the free service reduces quality and consumer choice. In this short paper, we examine these concerns. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55137 Design Rules,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
approaches to solve technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation counters the dominant paradigm, which casts firms’ profit-seeking incentives as the main driver of technical change. This volume provides a...
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