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  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

The framework has two parts—a business analysis and a personal analysis—each comprised of a set of yes/no questions for critical assessment criteria. The note also offers perspectives on entrepreneurship, observations about combining an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

techniques and analysis tools. At the other extreme, clinical and QA/QC applications by their nature had a much higher need for automation because of the repetitive nature of tasks. Simple, integrated solutions seemed to make more sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

analysis of the organization so that significant changes can be made based on what comes to light." Organizational fitness is based on the premise that an organization is a system. "You can't change all its elements... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 05 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

their family after years spent working in house cleaning and other physically demanding jobs . He decided to stay in the US “I loved it here, this was home now,” he explained. So Westphal stayed on his own with a big year ahead –... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

  Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

consumer surplus by making the gray market less competitive domestically. Under certain circumstances, the domestic welfare destruction arising from this erosion dominates the domestic welfare gains that accompany a shift to arm's length transfer pricing. Finally, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall

As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. Publisher's link: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR38.3/ndf_jodi_short_michael_toffel_global_brands_labor_justice.php   Working Papers The Impact of Supplier Reliability on Retailer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

support lined up, Tierney and Bradach faced a final hurdle, writing a business plan. “There was no analysis that could have been done that we hadn’t done,” recalls Tierney. “But it’s one thing to help somebody else write a business plan.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

identifying the effects of bank credit supply. First, we focus on firms' choice between two close forms of external financing: bank debt and public bonds. By conditioning the sample of firms raising new debt, we can rule out a demand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace