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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has...
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by George C. Lodge
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
against foreign monopolies and cartels. In the article we examine how the Norwegian authorities interacted with international cartels and trusts in seven different cases in the interwar period. The study shows that although there was a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
implications for the assets that enable value creation. The framework for value creation and capture in bilateral start-up-incumbent collaborations extends to start-up-incumbent collaborations in a platform and ecosystem context where...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
borders with minimal restriction and regulation. In fact, two very different visions for financial globalization have been in conflict. The U.S. approach to globalization has been ad hoc, relying on the bilateral influence of the U.S....
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by Ann Cullen
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Points out the roles of bilateral investment treaties and regional economic agreements in making arbitration accessible to an increasing number of foreign investors. Views the various arrangements as...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
economy began to improve and the livelihood of many Chinese rose with it, their tastes began to change. Exposed to more luxurious foreign brands, many Chinese strived to purchase a Swiss or Japanese watch. How could Fiyta build up its...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United...
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
skin the proverbial cat: Some emerging-market companies compete in several countries, but others sell only at home. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0610C How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Business Review To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Hoffeld Abstract—This article discusses what behavioral research does and does not tell us about factors that aid the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
exporters have been politically repressive, generous with foreign aid when oil prices are high, and free of civil war; in contrast, the recipients of petro aid were relatively...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs. Read the paper: http://www.torfason.net/site/wp-content/uploads/Ingram-and-Torfason-2010-Organizing-the-In-Between.pdf Working PapersBroadening Focus: Spillovers,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
conditions. In this case, Western consumers were taking responsibility not for their own health but for the health and safety of workers in a foreign land thousands of miles away. Consumer power has not been that evident as a criterion in...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge). The WDC would be a...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
development and manufacturing growth of their home countries. The most recent work here, with my HBS colleague Fritz Foley, studies how U.S. ethnic inventors aid the FDI and foreign R&D sourcing of U.S....
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- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
fundraising prowess was aided by his appreciation and use of all communications media, notably the Internet, to engage voters. Obama picked up where Howard Dean left off. He leveraged his website, the blogosphere, and even user-generated...
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by John Quelch
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as...
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Sean Silverthorne