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- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Freddie Mac, with about 50 percent of all mortgage credit going through these firms. They were able to take extraordinary risks with their implicit government backing and failed spectacularly in September 2008 just before Lehman went down. We need a system without this... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Working PapersNone Available This Week Cases & Course MaterialsAssessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System Harvard Business School Note 808-026 Describes how to asses and enhance an individual's bases, sources, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
employers and 92 percent of small ones offer employees only a single health insurance plan. And even when companies offer three or four options, precious little distinguishes them—most managed-care plans provide the same benefits, insure virtually identical View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunity or bubble] will happen at the national level at once is a big question mark." Warren Ching comments, "The Chinese government wants nothing but [to save] face. They will not allow this kind of economic meltdown."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation” The growth is also driven by ways in which alternative lenders are innovating in small business lending, particularly in terms of simplicity... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
of this technology still remain a dilemma even after the introduction of 'the innovator's solution.' Research in this direction would be welcome." B. V. Krishnamurthy takes the idea to another level by commenting, "The heart of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
unique data set on the career histories of Indian bureaucrats supports the key predictions of our framework. We find that politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance as a means of control.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
discovered these negative results, some firms might have thrown in the towel and moved on to other projects. But Pfizer's scientists picked up on—and decided to pursue—what they thought might be an interesting side effect. That side... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
with serious consequences to firms and society in general. Annemarie Scholberlev quoted John Kenneth Galbraith, who reminded us of a cause of poor predictions when he said " those employed or self-employed who tell of the future do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, and I am dismayed to see the destructive effect these instances of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
limited quantity. The competition has no comparable model. Which price should the company choose? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54489 Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation By: Alfaro, Laura,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
competitive advantage.EE: How is Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective unique from other supply chain programs offered in recent years? Shapiro: Traditionally, the supply chain has been taught at the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
fundamental intellectual capital for the industry. Even without doing very much of the basic research, however, other firms were still registering large numbers of patents." What's going on here? The research cycle, it seems, has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace