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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
was founded to serve a vital but narrow function in maintaining the global foreign exchange system and thus enabling international trade. This note gives an overview of the IMF's evolution by describing key phases in its history,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
policies, institutions, or resource endowments. I show that firms have agency. When governments attempted to reverse globalization during the interwar years, firms redesigned their international businesses rather than abandon them.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
University - which will inherit two small stadiums built for Olympic field-hockey competition. After the Games, the two schools will share the facilities, with one stadium being converted for track and field and the other for college... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
to discourage dishonesty: signing at the beginning rather than at the end of a self-report, thereby reversing the order of the current practice. Using lab and field experiments, we find that signing before rather than after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
investment facilities in their home countries. Q: Does your research have implications for U.S. policy? A: One implication concerns immigration levels. It is interesting to note that while immigrants account for about 15 percent of the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
limited the competitive structure of the economy. Silverthorne: In a chapter on business ethics and corruption, you and colleague Janet Hunter note that the country has struggled with corruption (as have other developing and Western... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
clause and a reverse termination fee, the potential damages if Hexion/Apollo breached the agreement were uncapped. As the credit markets deteriorated in late 2007 and into 2008 and Huntsman turned in disappointing financial results, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
School Case 217-059 A Note on Franchising (Abridged) Examines the motivations for franchising. Examines the academic literature in the area and draws implications for franchising patterns. Also provides data on franchising patterns.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
should be noted that the trick to measuring the analysts' optimism is to measure the signed accuracy of the forecasts. To do this, we calculate a forecast error of all analysts' forecasts. For example, for a forecast of one-year-ahead... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technology would provide the country with greater agricultural production, a major source of exports, without the need to convert additional areas of the Cerrado or Amazon to farmland. However, producers have been slow to adopt it due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
dioxide from the air or from emission stacks. But there are very few people trying to figure out how to actually use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide into the products that we need and want and use all over the world. DM: That's... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
HawkinsHarvard Business School Note 111-073 Background note for cases dealing with intercorporate investments. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111073-PDF-ENG Merck/Schering-Plough... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
countries side-by-side, exploring them from the 1850s up until the present day, when Chile’s economic strength seems to have surpassed Argentina’s—a reversal of fortune. The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile explores the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
efforts,” notes Hammond, who, in the following conversation, talks about the School’s commitment to antiracism education and research, support for the Black and African American community at HBS, and opportunities to engage the broader... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Reorganizations—Triangular Mergers Harvard Business School Note 207-009 Discusses the reasons and uses of triangular or three-party mergers to complete a business acquisition or tax-free corporate reorganization. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace