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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
read it, and you know it will always run as claimed. That’s the substitute for institutional trust, and while it’s powerful, it limits what you can do in these systems to some degree, because you have to design software that can be...
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- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
often. However, we find that both individual's own experience and others' experience alter their responses in predictable ways. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, the two types of...
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- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
their most important responsibilities, substituting "executive search" for succession planning and development? What, if anything, can CEOs, directors, and shareholders do about this? What do you think? To Read More: Joseph L....
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure components? Does correlation in consumer valuations make bundling more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
breakthrough the company had hoped for, much remained uncertain—most obvious, would consumers accept Reb A as a substitute for sugar or the myriad sweeteners already established in the marketplace? The potential seemed high given...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
educational experiences that complement classroom work. Last January, four programs took students abroad to China and Vietnam, India, the Middle East, and Europe. Light and many faculty members see an opportunity for HBS to expand the Immersion programs. There's no...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
trust is much easier to do in person. Zoom is not an effective substitute for face-to-face relationship building.” —Steve Latham (MBA 1997) “What I learned is that, prior to COVID-19, we were focused on things that did not add value. The...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
company's aerosol products - three years before the U.S. government banned CFC propellants from aerosols. "That was a classic example of making a 'green' decision and creating a win-win situation. When we substituted the naturally...
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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in first-party content that substitutes for third-party content relative to platforms benefitting from favorable expectations. On the other hand, platforms that benefit from favorable expectations capture a larger share of total surplus...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
(retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g.,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rest in his book-lined office, the shovel he used to break ground on the school’s dormitory renovation project leaning against the wall. One of the lessons that Marietta learned is that there is no substitute for building on local...
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- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
value 20 years ago and of the Washington Post for a twentieth of the group's market capitalization, it is clear we can now substitute newspapers for airlines. Yet John Henry, the winning bidder for the Globe, and Jeff Bezos, the new owner...
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- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
the people who are attracted to this approach are mathematicians, not economists, so they might not appreciate the underlying nature of some of the things they're describing." The paper notes that one neglected feature of the securities produced by structured...
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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Peer influences appear to be substitutes for direct experience: the effects are strongest for those without exposure to entrepreneurship in their family of origin, and for those who have engaged in little inter-firm mobility themselves....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
Stanford’s business school now aims to “develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world,” and MIT’s Sloan School of Manage-ment, “to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.” A crucial question raised by business...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
favorable expectations when first- and third-party content are substitute (complements). These results hold with both simultaneous and sequential entry of the two sides. With two competing platforms-incumbent facing favorable expectations...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
question that has received less attention, however, is whether focus at the divisional level is complementary with, or a substitute for, focus at the firm level. We explore this question by considering the performance of investigative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
Catskill Mountains. Here Ford reworks Durand’s iconic painting, substituting Cole and Bryant with the writers Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the foreground, and inserting a McDonald’s restaurant in the background as his...
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