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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence of NPE opportunism: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend themselves, repeated assertions of lower-quality patents, increased assertion activity nearing patent expiration, and forum shopping. We find moreover that NPE litigation has a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
differentiated capabilities. Simply replicating strategies that were successful at home is likely to be insufficient in the United States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
rising real per capita income). Capital formation (investment) and the development of human resources are key to this process. Q: Were you surprised by anything you've discovered? A: I am constantly surprised—surprised about corruption... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay," he added. "Increasingly, MNCs will see corporatized... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
barred sponsors from soliciting small investors for large commercial real estate. However, the JOBS Act of 2013 loosened U.S. restrictions on equity crowdfunding. Nino believes that crowdfunding will democratize View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
relative lack of success in fundamentally altering the political institutions of the countries in question...this is the real problem—not the 'hegemonic pretensions' of the United States, but its chronic lack of imperial stamina."... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow (HBS Press).Q: Many people rushing to use the Internet in their businesses have made some real mistakes that you warn your readers about. What are some of them? A: Tongue in cheek, I... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of valuable information View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
activity, but a gap remains for seed-stage financing. The founders are evaluating the best way to structure their private equity fund to reflect their own assets and abilities and the needs and resources of the entrepreneurial scene in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Strategic Value Of Values: A New Guidance System By Rosabeth Moss Kanter Any company can say it has values, but what Banco Real did was to embed them in business practice and make them credible to the skeptics inside and outside of their... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better leverage the assets of the supply... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-037 Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A) Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
team, the courts blocked a settlement on default for several months while they watched their position weaken; last year Argentina's court-appointed mediator officially ruled that the country was in default. The experience gave the students a new respect for the market.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pundits and politicians point to the burden of pension, health, and union obligations on the cost side. True, but not it's not sufficient just to cut costs. The real game is about revenues. Municipal revenues come from economic activity,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
will drive investors away to other companies." Guillermo Estefani concurs, saying, "It is important to show all real information available from the company, so investors can track its behavior and learn whether it is really... View Details