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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
patent applicants, because it allows the applicant to shape its patents to evolving circumstances while retaining the priority date associated with the original application. In Rambus' case, as late as 1999 it was modifying its patent...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and does not turn brown after cutting. Unlike other GMOs, it does not contain foreign genes. The case describes the company's commercialization plans in light of the complex environment surrounding genetically modified foods. Purchase...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
different kind of game that produces results of a different type—if you are pretty certain that you're ready to change the intent of your bets, or at least that you are ready to modify or expand the kinds of results you are seeking....
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- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
shoppers modify their behavior to take advantage of reward or loyalty deals. How do behaviors such as cherry-picking and stockpiling play into the equation? A: When we looked at this data, we didn't see much of a stockpiling effect. Worst...
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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
1990s, many companies introduced ERP systems that captured data at the transaction level. It was natural to think how we could modify ABC systems to benefit from the ready availability of transactional data about orders, products, and...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
modify an assignment - perhaps to capitalize on a particularly interesting discussion in the previous day's class - they simply go into the database, make the change, and it's instantly available to all the students in the course. So, we...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
should the acquiring firm A modify its own business model and/or fold itself into its acquisition B, rather than trying to integrate B into the old business model? The case also touches upon themes related to the management of human...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
presumably based on its distinctive competence, rather than consciously serving the customer. Levitt thus argued that when companies fail, "it usually means that the product fails to adapt to the constantly changing patterns of consumer needs and tastes, to new...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
job. After determining whether a job is designed for success (or failure), JDOT provides a menu of job attributes that can be modified to improve the effectiveness of the job. While this module is designed to be used alone, it is part of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several generalizations, showing how the benchmark tradeoff is View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the political authorities of capitalism had to acquire the capacity, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
more efficient process. The big companies, notes Williams, are too big; innovation, he says—particularly these kinds of radically reengineered and modified models—is the province of smaller companies. And groups like the Secklers have the...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk―a forecast of limited future funding―by modifying...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
scheduled dates—albeit in a modified (virtual) form. NFL scouts had the entire 2019 college football season to evaluate prospects. The NFL Combine, another opportunity to see select recruits in action, went ahead as planned at the start...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
over what time frame, is an expression of those values. The commitment to reconsider, evaluate, question, and modify your decisions in light of your values is an expression of character. With an overly narrow focus on the near-term...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Olympic committee staff and volunteers; 35 new or modified venues; 35 training sites; 8 Olympic villages; 11.2 million tickets; and 750,000 nights' worth of accommodations. But perhaps the most significant number of all has been the $1.7...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
also allowing them to do it their own way. But, once you start expanding outside of the traditional, urban setting, and away from a single big company, there are lots of differences that the model has to take into account. You need to have a certain flexibility as you...
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by Kristen Senz