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    The Big Ditch

    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

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    Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

    Experiment There are concerns that managers repurchase shares myopically to benefit themselves at the costs of shareholders and society. Due to these concerns, the SEC adopted its 2023 Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rules (the... View Details
    • January 2022
    • Case

    SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    As of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants in almost 20... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 25 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

    business trade publication estimates that between July and December 2021, SHEIN added 2,000 to 10,000 items per day to its app. Sheng Lu, an associate professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware, estimates that... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
    • 09 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 9

    opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21

    slightly for ISO 9001 adopters, although total injury costs did not. These results have implications for organizational theory, managers, and public policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-018.pdf A Decision-making... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    place, discussing one’s next step (or departure) wouldn’t feel abrupt or discriminatory. Health Wing works with a company that saw almost a million dollars in unexpected health care costs last year because the company’s generous health... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 13 Jan 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Intermediaries for the IP Market

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
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    Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

    Sophus A., Charlotte Robertson, and Robert Fredona. "Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 725-006, September 2024. Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain By:... View Details
    • 30 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

    production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

    however, that mostly absorbed the higher prices caused by the ongoing trade war. While last year’s corporate tax cuts helped to soften the blow, those tariffs have continued to cut into their profit margins. The sunk View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 15 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 15

    recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Book

    The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

    By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
    Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    competencies required for achieving top-line growth through global partners are different than the competencies required to be successful in reducing costs via outsourcing. Yet, many companies continue to manage global collaboration... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Jun 2022
    • HBS Case

    Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

    off by the original products’ cost. In August 2021, the company dropped the original bike’s price to $1,495; the treadmill that was still on the market cost $2,495, with a similar name but not the higher price of its recalled sister... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    Fellowship Lucinda Bhavsar and Avanish "Av" Bhavsar (both MBA 1997) established this fellowship in honor of their 20th Reunion to provide support to students who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost of an education at the School.... View Details
    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

    than anticipated at a time when concern over inflation remains high. Government trade policy may in fact have pushed companies to move faster than they would have liked, raising the cost of relocating... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    performing as a whole, may not hold much value when an employee goes to exercise them, Rouen says. They also can be complicated to administer from legal and tax perspectives. Employees are skeptical of programs that trade wages or... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    funding from national markets and makes lending less dependent on local deposits, which erodes differences across states in banks' financing costs and, in turn, in lending rates. We nest our banking model in a quantitative dynamic spatial... View Details