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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas...
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- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
patterns of hundreds of thousands of inventors over two decades. (They considered only inventors who held multiple patents.) "Patenting inventors represent an important category of skilled workers involving the sorts of trade View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are...
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- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
sales each year? Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently wrote a case on Apple Pay and the company’s ambitions of convincing consumers to trade in their real wallets in...
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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52626 Harvard Business School Case 217-071 GE Capital After the Crisis Keith Sherin, CEO of GE Capital, faced a decision on which hinged billions of dollars and the fate of one of America’s most storied companies. On his...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
side of the argument is that having non-competes allows companies to invest in employees—they can also be sure that their trade secrets are not lost to competitors. How did you come about that...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
studies have shown that these norms are not universally followed. Lack of openness and transparency means that scientific problem solving is constrained to a few scientists who work in secret and who typically fail to leverage the entire...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
billion in assets under management. How did you first become interested in investing? My father had spent time in the Argentine and followed the price of Indian tea shares. As a young boy, it was romantic and exciting to chat with him about global investing. What has...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1 The...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Johnson suddenly realized that her mother’s whole white family was—and always had been—missing. When she began to pry, her mother’s 36-year-old secret spilled out. Her mother had simply vanished from Indiana, evading an FBI and police...
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- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
brain data to play a key role in future research on consumer choice. (In a recent HBS industry background note on neuromarketing, she discusses the techniques that have helped researchers decode secrets such as why people love...
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- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
psychosis, and it's very scary to be in it, and that's what it looked like for me. I still have periods of psychosis, even now. And what that looks like every day is going into a Starbucks and getting incredibly confused. Thinking that the barista is sending you View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
arbitration, backed by bilateral investment treaties and regional trade agreements, promised further protection. The new protections, however, had emerged without a real consensus on the part of investors' home countries and their hosts....
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- 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
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
companies, and what can they do to protect themselves? Shih: Companies need to understand their vulnerabilities. If you are a company that uses tools with this kind of high embodiment of know-how and you can’t protect complimentary assets like recipes or View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
particularly in venture-funded companies where investors seek to protect their intellectual property. It might seem that Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) would guard against the loss of trade secrets and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
numbers. As individuals spoke in class, players “filled in” their boxes. When someone got “Bingo,” the rule was for them to get called on and say the secret phrase. A historic episode of Turkey Bingo that featured the View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
governance and compensation issues 75 percent and 92 percent of the time, respectively. Vanguard has also met with some 1,000 executives from companies it invests in. In 2015, CEO Bill McNabb signaled his recognition of the increased role Vanguard has to play in a...
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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
shocks, i.e., they must buy or sell at the same time. Two assets are "co-fragile" if their owners have correlated trading needs, even if the holdings of these owners do not directly overlap. We formalize this idea and apply it...
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Martha Lagace