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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
add over $10 trillion to outstanding federal debt. But closer inspection of government data reveals that these figures grossly understate both the current deficit and level of debt. Consider, for example, that the estimated net present value of obligations under the...
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- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
behavior and ways to counter it with information on why to give. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50771 Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
headquarters in Boston. Rather than hope that train fares and property tax payments eventually make their way into a public good, New Balance built the station themselves so they could watch the use of every penny—even as the general...
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- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
system of laws and regulations that provide more latitude to large organizations in their dealings with employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors. In recent years, questions have been raised about whether those laws and regulations...
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- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413120-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-025 Amazon No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-053 Eko: Mobile Banking and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
more successful if it drives other aspects of your business. (And it doesn't hurt that you're also putting a stick in the eye of a competitor who makes money from the operating system layer of the software stack.) "It changes the way...
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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
"decouple" payments to European farmers. Explores the logic behind agricultural supports, with a focus on the economic, political, and cultural context of French farming. Discusses efforts to reform the CAP in the context of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
restrictions imposed by the intermediaries, who want consumers to focus less on price differences and more on the benefits of value-added services that they provide, such as distribution, one-stop shopping, easy scheduling, payment...
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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-014 Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (A) Işıl Akdemir Evlioğlu, executive vice president of marketing at...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Antebellum New York (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-038 Banks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, not based on Mexico's fundamentals, and weak regulation of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exposure is not much of an issue. A convertible bond can be viewed as a simple coupon paying corporate bond plus a conversion option. A bond pricing model discounts the promised payments at a rate that compensates for time, risk, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
parts of Stryker Corporation's systems and procedures for approving and authorizing capital spending of many different types, including buildings, machinery, and working capital for existing businesses, as well as transactions with third...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
give students an opportunity to understand the creation of deferred tax liabilities (DTLs) and the life cycle of a DTL using an example based on the difference between Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) depreciation, which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-028 Innovating Beyond Ochsner The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat hypertension. Built into the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and also broadening the circumstances in which they arise. We discuss applications to travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies....
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Sean Silverthorne