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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

services into three new content areas—news, music, and popular bloggers. Each potential area of Daqi's expansion offered extensive benefits, such as major growth opportunity, as well as risks, including private lawsuits, government... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

someone who fits these criteria, boards may find that many talented CIOs and CTOs drop off the list of potential IT committee members.) The IT expert must have not only a solid grounding in the firm's overall business needs but also a... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

up discouraging the use of stock options, the potential for fraud, and grotesquely outsized gains, will not be reduced. Any compensation system that is based on performance has the potential to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

14 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

medical conditions—should assess the potential risks of COVID-19 vaccines and other drugs approved in December, and how regulators can build more trust with the public. He teamed with University of Texas at Dallas Professor Umit Gurun and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Pharmaceutical; Health

19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-083.pdf Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions Authors:Paul A. Gompers and Yuhai Xuan Abstract We compare three potential mechanisms for alleviating the asymmetric information between the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

immigration from certain countries has the potential to reduce the competitiveness of the US in the long run, as it mechanically restricts the pool of applicants (not only applicants from these countries, but also any applicants who... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

challenge of managing relationships with "partners" or "associates." Yet as the Rana Plaza disaster and too many other examples show, every outsourced stop along the supply and production chains holds the potential for... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

managers valuable insights, but there are potential pitfalls, Luca says. They include: Failing to tie experiments with managerial decision-making. Some organizations tend to relegate testing to specialized teams without deep managerial... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their most recent fund. Caelan was asked to review View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

Commission, in contrast, still approaches its accession negotiations just as it always has: Brussels negotiators insist, correctly, that the EU's rules unambiguously forbid all capital controls, and so potential members are obliged to... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

lending is not yet complete, but we can already see its promise. As technology opened the doors to vast troves of data, opportunities emerged to create new insights on a small businesses health and prospects. These inputs have the View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

dimensions that can be used to characterize these jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing political powers at the IASB; and own potential political power at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

"Good point, Tom, and that isn't all we'll need. We also have to have somebody in Asia. Either Singapore or Tokyo would be an ideal base. Probably Tokyo works better because more potential clients are headquartered there than in the... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

migrants, which helped US firms speed the development of new technologies. “Knowledge transfers through social networks,” Choudhury says. “If a firm created mechanisms where the locals would work with migrants, then that knowledge would transfer and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

venture had gained by operating in multiple countries and spreading its talent across the locations. He then asked when does a global startup become more than the sum of its parts. As an example, the company's operations in contiguous countries had greatly boosted its... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

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