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- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications of keeping important new ideas locked away in vaults as trade secrets? Does...
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by Kristen Senz
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
to write this work? What are some of the illusions you uncovered, and which ones strike you as most important to grapple with? A: Our country is in the midst of a major controversy regarding U.S. foreign relations and questions of war and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has...
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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
upper Amazon, they brought people a taste of America, along with the promise of freedom and prosperity. The end of the Cold War signaled victory for Brand America. As closed economies opened up to foreign View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
feel part of something bigger and give you a sense of belonging." A Costa Rican best expressed the aspirations that consumers associate with global brands: "Local brands show what we are; global brands show what we want to be." That isn't exactly new. In...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-024 Evolving Trends in Global Trade The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out. Empirical evidence from the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
Germany, earlier this month, President Trump was “odd man out” on both global trade and climate change. China, Russia, and India joined the European nations in fostering global trading commitments and...
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by Bill George
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
trade war continues (TonyO), leadership or lack thereof (Harry White), actions by the current US administration to encourage firms to bring jobs home and promulgate “America first” policies (Todd Z.),...
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- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the elective course Managing...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World War II and the 1970's...
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by Laura Alfaro
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
had become woven together in ways never before seen, and a truly global economy had emerged that many believed would forever banish the possibility of war altogether. But could trade really assure perpetual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial controls than on coordination of technical or...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-053.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract We use...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
presented. The Second World War as an Economic Disaster Author:Niall Ferguson Publication:In Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century, 83-132. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., 2007 Abstract World View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
relationship. In this paper we look at this era as economic historians, trying to set events in a longer-term perspective. In some ways China's economic model in the decade 1998-2007 was similar to the one adopted by West Germany and Japan after World View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
from World War II Internment Firm Trade By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict,...
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Sean Silverthorne