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  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

http://hbr.org/product/tesco-group-food/an/514022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-023 Mission Produce As the leading distributor of fresh avocados in the U.S., Mission Produce was at a crossroads in late 2013. Avocado consumption was booming and CEO Steve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

enormous resources of oil, gold, and diamonds, it also has some of the most fertile remaining untilled land in Africa. However, since the end of fighting in 2002, Angola’s vast wealth has been squandered by a small elite tied to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

out of keeping with the spirit of America and harmful in the long run. "Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the prevailing view" After all, what is the secret sauce of US... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

impairment rules to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both stock prices and non-financial business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

them to find a job. About 90 percent of contract workers land a new job when they leave Recruit. "An employee who is ready to move on is no longer the best match and there’s no point standing in the way of their dreams." While the Great... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

expertise, defensible turf, and organizational support. We demonstrate that these elements must be combined in specific pathways for knowledge-based innovative structures to emerge and embed. These pathways emerge from practitioner networks, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

or countries that might want to invest in Botswana? Is it a land of opportunity? Much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict, and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa.—Debora... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

markets grow as the number of people who are on the network grow, same as we saw on the phones. As they get bigger, many more people will come to them because that's where you go. "Now we see that the Internet View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

advice. He suggested that the company test and refine its business model by initially focusing on one payment operation, for parking tickets, in one U.S. city. The entrepreneurs almost bit off his head. "The leader in this market... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

markets is getting lower, recent attempts by China to forward-integrate into grain procurement, and changes in ownership. A related question is the degree to which they should emphasize pure trading or participate in value-added... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

arrange the greatest possible number of transplants. In the future, computers may make it possible to auction bundled goods, such as airport takeoff and landing slots. As online markets—like those for jobs and dating—proliferate, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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