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- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of US Invention. The rest of the country wants the jobs that come with such a boost. Some 238 US cities bid for Amazon’s second headquarters, HQ2, before...
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by Rachel Layne
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
capital." Now modern-day trustbusters have again launched an investigation into collusion in financial services, this time focusing on private-equity firms. The Justice Department is concerned that private-equity firms are teaming up to View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-029 Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A) In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609016-PDF-ENG Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum Harvard Business School Case 710-004 Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-054 Preparing a Concession Bid at TAV Airports Holding In 2013, TAV Airports Holding prepared a bid for the concession...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
workers aren’t likely to capture that future return,” says Stanton. Since workers are bidding out to jobs individually rather than developing a relationship with a particular employer over time, he adds, “they don’t have the incentive to...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
decrease in hospital operational performance both at the time of and in the months leading up to the cohort turnover. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49849 Harvard Business School Case 216-057 Canadian Pacific's View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
competing grocers bid for the right to gather a shopper's data by offering discounts on merchandise to program members and in some cases by offering members non-price benefits such as superior service. Anonymous mass markets are giving...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Airports Holding, a Turkish firm, after it withdraws from a bid to build Istanbul's newest airport. The new airport would eventually replace Istanbul Atatürk Airport, where TAV makes 43% of its current revenue, and losing it will leave...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Millennial Net worth another round of backing? Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804173 The Pilgrim Assurance Building 206-078 A local real estate developer has to decide how much to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
near the end of the next high tech bubble? When the Nasdaq finally makes it back to the highs it registered in 2000, perhaps this year? When investors stop cheering acquisitions like that of Facebook's? (They actually bid the price higher...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
utility had made a public announcement it was accepting bids to implement a smart water network monitoring system, and Peleg wanted to discuss if and how aggressively TaKaDu should bid on the contract with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
disastrous effects of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Another class participant pointed to an example of high-value data use documented in the Data.gov case study: In Virginia where there were problems with a bidding process,...
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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
FDI are raising concerns that there might be bidding wars: This means governments throwing a lot of money to foreign investors. This weakens corporate finances and can also start the reallocation of resources. "Is Brazil as a country...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
more likely to bid higher on an eBay auction when competing to buy a product? To test their hypothesis, Bos and Cuddy conducted an experiment at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, a university-wide research facility for behavioral...
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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
case:http://hbr.org/search/312025-PDF-ENG Fairstar Heavy Transport (A) Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Case 911-036 In 2009, the small heavy marine transport company Fairstar entered into bidding on one of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are hoping to forestall a third...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help...
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