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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
of its pricing, the strategic interaction between prices set by the content provider and by the platforms leads to a non-monotonic relationship between exclusivity and content quality: both high- and low-quality content will multihome and join both platforms, but there...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
of its inadequate payments. In the end, the Democrats' health care reform will require drastic rationing of health care for the sick to control its costs. The government-controlled UK health care system points the way because it features, for example, the lowest uptake...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
the United States, the Federal Drug Administration this week advised states to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women developed a rare blood-clotting disorder, raising new concerns about total vaccine supply....
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
the Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 chair. “In reality, there’s often an inverse correlation between those two things. Having said that, if you look at the quality of ideas that have converted into real businesses over the past...
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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Working PapersGrowth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract In this paper we distinguish different "qualities" of FDI to re-examine the relationship...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
increase in revenue for established schools whereas invitations to prestigious postseason bowl games play a big part for less-established schools. Furthermore, we find that student population and education quality dissipate the effect of...
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Marla Malcolm Beck
there.” At Berkeley, Beck majored in political economy and was enthralled by comparative economics. After graduation in 1995, she joined McKinsey & Co. where her leadership qualities flourished. On one major engagement with an...
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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
offer a structural approach to answering this question, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to change over time. Applying this approach...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
uncomfortable question in the age of globalization. At a time when the ingredients of our foods and medicines, parts for our cars, and toys for our children come from countries around the world, who is minding the store? What is the best way to ensure View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
has long been recognized as an engine for economic growth and development. Unlike bank loans, where the entrepreneur receives money and is left alone as long as the payments arrive on the pre-arranged schedule, venture capital investments add the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
world post-HBS, understanding a perspective vastly different than their own? Or did the qualities of your new friends closely mirror that of your old? My Black experience is realizing that you view me as “one of the good ones”. I saw...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
something that hadn't been done in 81 years—make an illegal drug legal. “They do not need to buy it at a fancy store—they'll go to a back alley basement shop as long as the product delivers” Of course, the question remains: How will state...
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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
inherently abusive; the citizens of the developed country are winners and the citizens of the undeveloped country may be getting a better or cheaper product. But when regulation is weak or nonexistent, this system can lend itself to severe abuse, as in the sale of fake...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food and View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based...
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Martha Lagace
- 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:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810123-PDF-ENG Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration Karim R. Lakhani and Paul R. CarlileHarvard Business School Case 610-074 This case presents the Myelin...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
competitive today? A: There has been a tendency to look too narrowly at location decisions, focusing just on labor cost, electricity costs, tax breaks, etc. But input costs are not what matters. What matters is total cost, which depends on the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable...
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Sean Silverthlorne