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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on...
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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
constitute an impressive 49 percent of the world's capital markets. But the job picture is bleak, with over four million people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Productivity growth has been negative for four years. Compared to the other...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
firms to make certain enhancements public, creating an incentive for firms to free ride on the contributions of others. This practice raises a number of puzzling issues. First, why should a firm further develop a product if competitors...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5 million View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product innovation on Wall Street, Rose...
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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
Hong Luo Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We find that, on average, laws that limit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
phase; it simply doesn't represent a sustainable solution for consumers. Yet employers are the natural gatekeepers for retirement plans, he believes. For example, when focus groups were presented with a new retirement product, individuals balked at signing on until...
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- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
liability standards, Feuerstein ended up spending more money than he had. And the company went bankrupt. View VideoA middle-aged worker whose job was replaced by automation reflects on how the loss changed her life. As with many HBS...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
criminals? What, if anything, has been stolen or destroyed? Do your systems now harbor invisible “sleeper” worms or viruses that will cause more damage later and perhaps move on to attack other, outside systems? What are the company’s View Details
- March 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: Settling the Opioid Crisis
By: Kristin Mugford, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Susan Pinckney
How to get to a fair outcome for claimants in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy given its significant role in the U.S. opioid crisis.
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Mugford, Kristin, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Susan Pinckney. "The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: Settling the Opioid Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 223-060, March 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse talent—and are seeing View Details
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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
off-balance-sheet entities but with a transparent process and capital charges that are based on actual risks. We want banks to disclose their potential liabilities to these entities and to put capital behind these risks. Unless we have...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
which, as the former parent of Delphi, has agreed to fund a portion of the massive pension and retiree health care liabilities that Delphi incurred when it separated from GM in a prior spin-off. The company has also had to seek...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
practices or the contested meanings in the adoption of new practices (Leblibici, et al., 1991; Lounsbury and Pollack, 2001). While both research approaches have been quite productive and provocative, some scholars have raised concerns...
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