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- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
persistent effect on post-colonial outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-041.pdf Cases & Course Materials The Amsterdam World Trade Center Harvard Business School Case 208-078 Late in September 2001, Hans...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
of commercialization. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810004-PDF-ENG SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinnHarvard Business School Case 810-004 The case is about the...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
agents, or teams) of the parties. In qualitative and quantitative analyses of negotiations carried out by principals, agents, and teams in a laboratory experiment, we find that negotiators' efforts to manage the constraints and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
like any other. By contrast, each NFT is unique, just like in a litter of puppies. This makes them non-fungible—you generally wouldn’t trade your puppy for another one! (The word token in context basically just means a digital object that...
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- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Blavatnik establishing the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator at Harvard University to promote the translation of Harvard’s biomedical innovation for the benefit of people throughout the world. The Mace P. Blicksilver (MBA 1980) Endowed Fellowship Mace P. Blicksilver...
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
2022 There are four main types of commercial credit: asset-based loans, cash flow loans, trade finance and leasing. The authors show that credit growth dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types using credit-registry...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
this country. If elected, I will do everything possible to ensure that America has the strongest defense forces in the world and that we are prepared to fight two major wars at a time. If elected, I will do everything possible to protect the right of all Americans to...
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- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company. Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports...
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by Bill George
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
can make extreme means seem justifiable.” A company spiraling into debt France Télécom’s troubles started in the late 1990s, after the French government turned the national telephone monopoly into a publicly traded company, now known as...
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by Michael Blanding
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Propose an Independent Project - MBA
student working independently or in teams that ideally range from three to five students. Each team or individual is expected to conduct research in the field, carry out thoughtful analysis, prepare a report, and make a final...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
family to lead the company, Zobel inherited a legacy of prudent management that preserved Ayala's interests through times of revolution, colonial rule, dictatorships, and war—not to mention earthquakes and volcanoes. Established in 1834 as an agricultural View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's influential study of View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
several measures of religious belief and practice, outperformed competitors located elsewhere. These firms make “greater social contributions, provide greater employee protection, and have higher entertainment expenses, more patents, and more View Details
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Marijk C. van der Wende Abstract— Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of uncertainty, especially in the field of higher education, regarding...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
trade between nations, but the cost is horrendous I remember reading Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat, and thinking that it sounded good in theory, but there would be years, if not decades, of employment pain here in the U.S.”...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Japan after World War II. Trade surpluses with the United States played a major role in propelling growth. But there were two key differences. First, the scale of Chinese currency intervention was without precedent, as were the resulting...
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Sean Silverthorne