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November 2018
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Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee

By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy

As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or... View Details

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14 Sep 2010
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productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often defined as an economic system... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
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Alltech

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details

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23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

module boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. In this chapter I extend the functional mapping techniques developed in the last chapter to locate technical and strategic bottlenecks, modules, and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2014
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behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2013
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Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

the income taxes paid by residents with good jobs, from the tolls paid by drivers, from property and sales taxes. Without revenue, costs can't be covered. Can cities with high liabilities expect to be bailed out and propped up without... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

24 Feb 2015
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proxies of expected returns, the implied cost of capital's (ICC) measurement error properties are relatively unknown. Through an in-depth analysis of a popular implementation of ICCs by Gebhardt, Lee, and Swaminathan (2001) (GLS), I show... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2011
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Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

Transplantation Network (OPTN). This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and allocation decisions for each new... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

01 May 2007
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innovation. PDF not available. Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence Authors:Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Abstract This paper theoretically and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

economy and the history of ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53906 2017 Advances in Strategic Management Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment By: Alcácer, Juan,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2007
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herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

City–based startup, offering investors equity in individual CRE properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required investors in CRE equity to accept an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Sep 2001
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Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

technologies allow information to flow seamlessly and invisibly across national borders, they make it very difficult for governments to do many of the things to which they have grown accustomed. Governments can't patrol their physical territories in cyberspace; they... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good (like software) and a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2018
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features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold and Li model. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2009
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private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in linguistics, not economics. Technological Innovation and Organizations Authors: Josh Lerner and Pierre Azoulay Publication: In Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
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Making the Most of Government Upheaval

privatization have created unprecedented opportunities for firms of all sizes and varieties to compete in larger markets than ever before. In the process, a handful of global organizations have risen to replace formerly state-owned... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

properties on the Ohio or Missouri rivers that flood every now and then but can be cleaned up afterwards without terminal damage. Move the mechanical systems and electrical switchgear to a high floor, evacuate residents temporarily, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

11 May 2010
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pressure from existing licensees. Further, as the company advanced one of its newest technology developments, a cooling technology for portable devices, it had to contend with markets where there were not strong property rights regimes.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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