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- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
speaking on the current movement in Asia to shift to green and renewable energy sources. The event, moderated by HBS professor Ramana Nanda, was cosponsored by the student-run HBS Asia Business Club, Harvard Asia Law Society, and HKS East...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
Abstract—We study the effect of staggered boards on long-run firm value, using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a staggered board on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find a significant and positive average increase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
policy and other measures. Of course this is not necessarily a policy prescription: other Asian countries with low levels of inward foreign direct investment, like Pakistan, Myanmar, Cambodia, and North Korea, did not flourish. Q: The...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this widespread fair trade movement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Philippines, found himself at a crucial turning point in his young company’s development. In just three years, Zalora had come from entering the Philippine fashion retail industry as an unknown quantity to becoming a household name across the Southeast View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
Berlin-based nonprofit that supports "national integrity systems" to help curb corruption, Ezekwesili told the HBS audience that it's not enough for African governments to aspire to macro- and microeconomic stability. "We saw the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products—and discusses New Balance's operations decisions to support that strategy. These include significant use of domestic manufacturing at a time when nearly all other competitors sourced finished shoes from...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
also cause political reactions harmful to capitalism. Other possible disruptions to the operation of capitalism were seen in the following: the global financial system, viewed by some as overly opaque, leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks;...
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by Garry Emmons
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
the Program on Negotiation, an interuniversity consortium of Harvard, MIT, and Tufts that is based at the Harvard Law School. Summaries of several of Koh's negotiations are presented in order to stimulate further research and analysis....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
foreigners. In the somewhat special case of Indonesia, the political crisis accompanying the Asian Currency Crisis meant that no increases in rates were granted; thus the state-owned power distributor simply could not pay what had been...
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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is. As Venture View Details
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
growing. If you take that then you don't do anything," said Sabancı. The Power Of Good Citizenship Manu Chandaria In his interview, Manu Chandaria discussed the challenges faced by Comcraft, a business started by his Asian immigrant...
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- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
the recipient of the 2014 Great Negotiator Award, presented by the Program on Negotiation, an interuniversity consortium of Harvard, MIT, and Tufts that is based at the Harvard Law School. Summaries of several of Koh's negotiations are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
Matter Authors:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:Alabama Law Review (2011) Abstract The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative...
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Sean Silverthorne