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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
a mysterious reservations system. If they are lucky enough to be one of the 8,000 who get a booking that year, they are then given a date and time to show up. Reaching elBulli’s coastal perch involves...
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Julia Hanna;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
development, incentives, people management, developing a performance culture, and sustaining that culture in the face of inevitable market changes that are often outside the control of the selling company....
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- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
on-premises businesses have implemented pre-booking to control customer flow. They use temperature-detection technologies, wearables, and apps to identify customers in near real-time who are at high risk of...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
alleging that the company had misstatements in its financial reports. Mayhem’s report involved IGT’s practice of refurbishing used parts in one of its reporting segments and then transferring those parts to another reporting segment....
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Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
The Role of Financial and Information Intermediaries in the Capital Markets
Hutton's research investigates the role of financial analysts and short sellers in the pricing of equity securities. Recently, Hutton examines (with Patricia Dechow and Richard Sloan) the role of sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts in the pricing of common equity...
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- January 2007 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
Lobbying for Love? Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao, Libby Cantrill and Patricia Wu
The fall of 2004 brought exciting news to Love Field, the Texas headquarters of Southwest Airlines. Delta Airlines, one of Southwest's main competitors, had announced that it would dramatically decrease service from the nearby Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW)...
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Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Business and Government Relations;
Opportunities;
Competitive Advantage;
Air Transportation Industry;
Texas
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Dennis A. Yao, Libby Cantrill, and Patricia Wu. "Lobbying for Love? Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment." Harvard Business School Case 707-470, January 2007. (Revised August 2007.)
- April 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Background Note
Note on Healthcare in Ghana
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
This note provides an overview of the healthcare system in Ghana. It discusses the public and private sector as well as traditional medical practice. It also discusses the country’s pharmaceutical industry. It is recommended as a companion to Professor Regina...
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Africa;
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Pharmacy Benefit Manager;
Health Care;
Health Care Costs;
Health Care Delivery;
Health Care Entrepreneurship;
Telehealth;
Health Equity;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business and Government Relations;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Ghana
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ben Creo. "Note on Healthcare in Ghana." Harvard Business School Background Note 323-112, April 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- January 2002
- Case
Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?
Noranda is a $7 billion international mining and smelting company headquartered in Canada. It has been cited for its fine environmental record. This case explores the issue of sustainability--in this case, for a mining company. Over time, and under nongovernmental...
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Cost vs Benefits;
Mining;
Cost Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Mining Industry
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?" Harvard Business School Case 702-009, January 2002.
- 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...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since...
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- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
But while there's a danger of moving too fast, Morriss tells me, there's also a serious opportunity cost of moving without enough speed. Her new book, Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to...
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Sigman Abstract—We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
important new direction in economic policy, building on earlier efforts in macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, market opening, and reducing the costs of doing business. Cluster Mapping Jun 2017...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
in the world, we don’t want people to be constrained by financial barriers that would prevent them from accessing the School or being successful in the MBA Program or thereafter. So, we think about this as a journey through three time...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 2024
- Working Paper
Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso
We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption...
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Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Government and Politics;
Crime and Corruption;
Trust;
Perception;
Business and Government Relations
Colonnelli, Emanuele, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza, and Edoardo Teso. "Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32170, February 2024.
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
retailer through a mobile device search, making a trip to the other store would involve time and travel costs many of them don’t want to bother with. But given that these...
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- 2011
- Book
Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky
The recent collapse of the mortgage market revealed fractures in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and...
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Financial Crisis;
Capital Markets;
Credit;
Financial Markets;
Mortgages;
Personal Finance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Demand and Consumers;
Financial Services Industry
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Eric Belsky, eds. Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
access to birth control and health care. Those of us striving to advance gender equity must continue to join with the leaders and thinkers working to advance the rights of...
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by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
freeze up.” David Wittenburg, from his vantage point as a “former numismatist,” suggested that such currencies “arise in times of need (e.g., tokens when official currency is scarce) and they disappear when...
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