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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49565 December 2015 Personality and Individual Differences On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People Around the World Have Fewer International Friends By: Yearwood,...
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- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
The Estate Tax Debate Per dollar of revenue, no tax policy generates more sound and fury than the taxation of estates. To supporters, the tax is a break on the concentration of wealth and power and an easy way to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within...
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- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
pitch and better understand several key marketing principles. Leads to an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507045 Selling Biovail Short Harvard Business School Case 207-071...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with helping to grow the Malaysian economy. Should Khazanah encourage job and route cuts at MAS, and how would the government...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that explained how these View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as mechanisms to...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
community voices to set priorities. Despite all of this, even if there is increased national funding for climate change proposals—a big if—there will be tough political choices at the state and local level. To combat sea level rise,...
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- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
increasing disposal cost decreases the amount of waste generated and, of the waste generated, more is converted into by-product. By-product synergy also shifts wealth from the primary market to the by-product market as disposal cost...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"quarter") exercised no influence on his investment strategy. He believed that conservative funding was called for in an industry in the midst of technological transformation. Therefore, he always had cash in a depression. He...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
as mutual funds and pensions that wanted to invest in those securities. Investment banks also provided advice on mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1980s the derivative markets were quite small and relatively unsophisticated, and the...
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- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
The case follows MBA graduate Emily Figel as she researches LendingClub as a potential investment vehicle for the small wealth management firm she will join in the fall. Using LendingClub’s historical data, she learns the fundamentals of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
mergers of good and bad banks and equity injections. We apply the framework to European banks vulnerable to sovereign risk in 2010 and 2011. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18537 Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
commitments. Second, depletion of existing natural resources means firms will have to develop resources in increasingly remote locations subject to higher levels of sovereign risk such as Chad and Azerbaijan. And finally, the combination...
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- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
funds; by the end of August 2008, the collective amount represented more than 20% of Chile's GDP. Several critics wanted the funds to be used to improve the poor public education system, income gap, and other impending social issues....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of tax policy is to share the costs of funding public goods evenly...
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- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced during each phase of her career and how she managed them. Lagarde started her career in 1981 as a lawyer at the global law firm Baker & McKenzie,...
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Dina Gerdeman