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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher and Reagan revolutions in the industrialized countries View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
strategy to develop 32 franchises that are strong in their markets and appealing as national and international brands." One such mega-franchise is the New England Patriots, led by owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and his son Jonathan (MBA...
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- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
Drug Administration is proposing the first federal oversight of the product. The very fact users could control the amount of nicotine they ingested led to worry that e-cigarettes would cause smokers to take in more nicotine, rather than...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the...
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Jeffrey Lazar
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent aggregation has View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
contract) does lead to higher effort for the duration of our job. This subtle but critical difference sheds light on the conditions under which higher wages will lead to reciprocity. We find that the impact of the gift is pronounced for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
commitments are likely to emerge in the marketplace. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-038.pdf Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent aggregation has View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Calm During Coronavirus Chaos,held on May 31. “Neil has led a number of sessions for the HBS Club of Toronto,” says the club’s president, Kazi Ahmed (MBA 2011). “That got us thinking about what he could share that might help people cope...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their continued dynamism and innovation. If Moss’s tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions sounds familiar, you’re right. Treasury Secretary...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
examined how decision makers’ own expertise influenced reliance on algorithms. Experts in national security, who regularly make forecasts, relied less on algorithmic advice than lay people did. These results shed light on the important...
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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private...
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Dan Morrell
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
festival in the region. And that then, led to a conversation I had with Richard Branson, to start the Extreme Tech Challenge, which is a worldwide startup competition, where we have entrants, really, from like 100 countries in the world...
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- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
perfectly with Ramirez’s goals to accelerate her learning and apply business knowledge to the social sector. Through this experience at Danaher, Ramirez had a light bulb moment - where she thrived was in solving people-related problems...
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All Industries
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
emphasis on coordinating and communicating with the center's many diverse leaders. "Many nonprofits are led by people who only know programs, not operations," Grossman says. "A key strength of Levy's is knowing how to...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
exponential technological progress has led to a dramatic decrease in information constraints. In a range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
brutality, and the injustices Black people continue to experience in American,” says DeShay, and the new music initiative will feature songs that “echo the need for change but offer up the approach of love and unity as means to creating a better world.” DeShay also...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
content has grown quicker than Yelp and TripAdvisor. Overall, these results shed light on platform strategy and market entry: tying can facilitate entry in complementary markets, even when the tied product is of worse quality compared to...
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Dina Gerdeman