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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Abstract—Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to protect the human View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
convinced Washington to protect their property rights outside the United States. It also asks when and why the U.S. government got out of the business of sanctioning foreign governments that expropriated... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Peru, or seven years to open a bakery in Egypt? He attributes much of this to the fact that most of the world lacks a tradition of property rights (which is consistent with the imperfections matrix mentioned... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
property rights of international investors. Even in the developed countries, receptivity towards multinationals fell. In Europe and the United States, whole sectors were closed to foreign companies. The... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
focuses on those issues and tools of greatest relevance to the managers being trained. For example, managers of a firm like Microsoft need to know how to preserve the patentability of inventions, how to avoid infringing on the intellectual View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
scholars studying racialization as an enduring American strategy for the coercion and control of labor, particularly African American labor. Race and capitalism is an expanding area, reaching subjects as varied Jim Crow, migration, urban studies, the carceral state,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
to everybody else and adjusts to what they are doing. In jazz, the short session has always been the norm. Q: What aspects of Davis's innovation seem unusual compared with companies and creative enterprises you have studied? Are there aspects of intellectual View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
featuring music by the local symphony as 250,000 Christmas lights lit up the county courthouse. Then revelers could head to the Samsung Ice Skating Rink, the only outdoor venue of its kind in all of Texas—which also happened to be located View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- November 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
By: Anita Elberse
The management team of Marvel Enterprises, known for its universe of superhero characters that includes Spider-Man, the Hulk, and X-Men, must reevaluate its marketing strategy. In June 2004, only six years after the company emerged from bankruptcy, Marvel has amassed a... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Opportunities; Growth and Development Strategy; Rights; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Elberse, Anita. "Marvel Enterprises, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 505-001, November 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find that as patent wars intensify, smartphone vendors not involved in any litigation focus more of their business in markets with weaker intellectual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
shareholders, and other stakeholders. However, doing so will not always serve shareholders' interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop some basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California gay marriage fame), claims that in September 2008 the U.S. arbitrarily set aside the rights of AIG's shareholders-violating the Fifth Amendment by taking private View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
different traditions. "It felt right and natural, not rigid with a certain style," she said. Yoga "gurus" she had encountered in New York put her off. Stiles used Facebook to promote yoga classes taught out of her... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
should be heavily regulated, is the market for indentured servants. A market like that with asymmetric information—in which one person knows a whole lot more about potential labor conditions and rights than the person on the other end—is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
than in recent years, indicating that a shift is potentially already underway. “The added uncertainties and costs of tough tech development and commercial exploration require a different approach to testing the startup’s hypothesis, raising capital and building teams,”... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
significant complementarity between the two. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/InformationSubsidies.pdf 2013 pub Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One's Influence and Appeal By: Kupor,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino