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- October 2010
- Journal Article
The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies
By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find...
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Business Ventures;
Product;
Markets;
Competition;
Organizational Design;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Rank and Position;
Organizational Structure;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Change;
Trade;
United States
Guadalupe, Maria, and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2, no. 4 (October 2010).
- December 2007 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Queensland Sugar Limited
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers have elected to continue collective marketing through QSL. However, several millers...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Goods and Commodities;
Trade;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
Marketing Strategy;
Supply Chain;
Network Effects;
Supply and Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Australia
Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Queensland Sugar Limited." Harvard Business School Case 508-038, December 2007. (Revised March 2013.)
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Kennedy School knowledge," Keen says of the legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
adult life, Mitsotakis entered politics in 2003 and was elected the following year as a New Democracy candidate in parliament, where he served on a host of committees. In 2013, then–prime minister Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976) appointed him minister for administrative...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- August 2022
- Case
SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to...
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NFTs;
Crypto Economy;
Alternative Assets;
DAOs;
Arts;
Governance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Finance;
Currency;
Investment;
Markets;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Demand and Consumers;
Network Effects;
Market Design;
Market Transactions;
Market Timing;
Web Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Scott Duke Kominers, and Amy Klopfenstein. "SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO." Harvard Business School Case 823-027, August 2022.
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
anniversary of Mexico's revolution against Spain, President Felipe Calderon hoped he could orchestrate several crucial reforms that Mexico needed. Mexico had not grown much over the course of the last decade, losing competitiveness to...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
But how? "That's the big question," says Datar. "To put it in the context of HBS, do we believe that every one of these things can be taught in a ninety-person classroom in a case-discussion format? That is the fundamental question we are grappling...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil rights reforms provided a break...
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- September 2023
- Case
The Rise and Fall of FTX
In November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and...
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Cryptocurrency;
Crime and Corruption;
Financial Statements;
Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Failure;
Restructuring;
United States;
Hong Kong;
Bahamas
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, and Max Hancock. "The Rise and Fall of FTX." Harvard Business School Case 124-014, September 2023.
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
João Lourenço, implement the necessary reforms to unlock Angola’s economic potential, or will the existing power structure prevent the sort of change that is required if Angola’s people are to finally see the benefits of independence?...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Enterprise Reform Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Module Note 712-028 The note examines state capitalism in the twenty-first century. It introduces a series of topics and cases related to state capitalism, such as the debate about...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
(Parliament) called for reforms to limit the activities of corporate pyramids. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-003 Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency This case...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
liberalization and since broad-based corporate governance reforms were implemented, goes expressly against the prediction of prior schools of thought about business groups. We argue that the conventional wisdom about tunneling and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
opportunities arise at home and abroad. Before inking a deal these days, venture firms need a global perspective on competition, if not a global presence, especially in China and India. Meanwhile, industry insiders worry that post-Enron regulatory View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
markets, schools, and health clinics; improve the reliability of electric power and extend service to communities not currently served; and expand the availability and reliability of potable water to increase health and productivity. Philippines, 2011–2016. This $434...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
fiscal obligations under bankruptcy-like proceedings. Many stakeholders felt hopeful that the Oversight Board could help Governor Ricardo Rosselló enact reforms that would improve public services, eliminate government waste, re-establish...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
health care reform in driving the value. The case provides an opportunity to estimate the potential return on investment as well as to evaluate the structuring of the transaction. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne