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- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
measures, commenting that "the pain should be borne by greedy and equally irresponsible lenders." JTG, while agreeing, didn't quite see it that way, suggesting that citizens as well as lenders share responsibility. In his words:...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
able to benefit from the experience of earlier competitors, while those that were first to be funded would pay the price. In the case of Mohr Davidow, for example, “it’s pretty clear Navigenics is going to be the one that benefits,...
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- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring public sector...
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by George Serafeim
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the...
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- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
and people don't like buying or paying for it. Therefore it takes skillful marketing to attract the attention of people and motivate the desired purchase behavior you are looking for." Amidst the generally dismal track record of the...
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- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
currently have. For example, investors that hold for periods of longer than five years would pay a 0 percent tax, whereas those holding for very short periods would pay a hefty tax. A second radical idea is...
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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
In fact, it makes it worse. Q: What if rating agencies were paid by investors rather than by bond issuers? Wouldn't that stop forum shopping? A: In theory, yes. The people who are being served by the rating agencies, the investors, should View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
men is exacerbated by several other important factors. Women in business and financial industries tend to move up the managerial ladder at a slower pace, so they stay in lower paying positions much longer. Women often choose...
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- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
Supply Chain Management Moving Toward New Theory" has crossed my desk. I receive these occasionally with a request for my blind (authors unknown to me) review for a juried academic journal with the equally unfortunate title...
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
within stores. Align incentives within your organization and in the supply chain. Use technology judiciously and pay attention to emerging new technologies, whose value might still not be apparent. Explain the changes you are making to...
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- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Respondents to this month's column appeared to be about equally divided on these issues. John Inman commented, "I sometimes feel that we are racing to the bottom to provide products and services at ever lower pricing without...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
they pay little attention to the social contract, or the spirit of the deal. So while the parties agree to the same terms on paper, they may actually have very different expectations about how the agreement will work in practice. Without...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
these characteristics to influence prices. For example, consider an advertiser that is the sole bidder for a given term, e.g., a product that it alone sells. That advertiser's payment to Google does not reflect bidding to beat a competitor. Rather, that advertiser...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
inefficient: We built this expensive track only to leave it vacant most of the time. PRT offers a different approach. With much lighter vehicles, the guideway can be proportionally slim—above ground in many areas, with a visual intrusion as small as an elevated bicycle...
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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
voicemail messages. Now their words are much more authentic and can be remarkably empowering. Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information. Everyone is equal on the social network. No...
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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
and other outlets that sold only cosmetics. Equally important, she thought most women would rather learn to make themselves more beautiful than pay expensive beauticians to do this. She thus eschewed the...
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- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to...
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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional...
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Sean Silverthorne