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  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

three levels of organization: within a single firm, across firms, and in open community-based development projects. The hypothesis was supported in 69% of the cases. Support for the hypothesis was strongest in the within-firm sample, less strong in the across-firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

markets, where customers needed more customization. We found weak evidence of better financial results where salespeople had lower creative talent before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak performance in recent years... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

countries with weak legal institutions. By implication, these findings suggest that improvements in foreign firms’ information environment upon listing in the U.S., as documented in prior literature, stem in part from the greater... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding U.S. and European markets versus broadening his attack to include China. If he enters China, should he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

http://hbr.org/search/713085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-078 America's Budget Impasse In the spring of 2013, Barak Obama faced a difficult budgetary challenge-reducing fiscal deficits over 10 years without dampening the weak... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

the upper hand in this area. The following table compares the strengths and weaknesses of each model: P2p Strengths Weaknesses It's free Under constant attack by industry players Variety of content... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

about their skilled employees (i.e., their winemakers), including the names of certain former employers of these individuals. Yes, But Weak States Can Be Coaxed Creatively Author: Eric D. Werker Publication: In Creative Capitalism: A... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

out. Q: What would you characterize as government's inherent weaknesses and strengths in risk management and how has this changed over time? A: In terms of risk management, the main advantage that the government has is its power to... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership. Agency theory suggests that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
The IASB and FASB propose new contingency loss recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules (A case). The B and C cases apply these proposals to British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf oil spill and Union Carbide's Bhophal gas discharge. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Trade; International Finance; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; India
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  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

Bower finds far too many companies are managed without leadership development as an objective; as a result, when the time comes to name a new chief executive, those firms turn to outsiders. Both insider and outsider CEOs have strengths and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

self-interest, is associated with greater self-interest only in the presence of a weak moral identity. Furthermore, we propose that the psychological experience of power is associated with less self-interest in the presence of a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

Division Problems Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Emin Karagozoglu, and Bettina Klaus Abstract We consider estate division problems a generalization of bankruptcy problems. We show that in a direct revelation claim game, if the underlying division rule satisfies efficiency,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

nets and subsequent improvements in our health measures, the link between regional spraying and individual health level appears rather weak in the data. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16069 August 2013 Management Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

set of competitive allocations coincides with the unique von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set based on a farsighted version of antisymmetric weak dominance (cf., Wako, 1999). We demonstrate that the set of competitive allocations also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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