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  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

is unique and costly for residents. Historically, electricity prices on the islands had been three times the national average because of the high cost of importing electricity via an underwater cable and maintaining the distribution... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911411-PDF-ENG CNOOC: Building a World-class Energy Company Joseph L. Bower, Nancy Hua Dai, and Michael Shih-ta ChenHarvard Business School Case 311-074 Fu Chengyu is the fifth CEO to lead China View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

a national sample of 6,000 life scientists whose careers span more than 20 years. We find sharp gender differences in participation in for-profit ventures, which we measure as the likelihood of joining the scientific advisory board (SAB)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract— Recurrent concerns over debt sustainability in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2014 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael M. Di Tella, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu
In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After President Yanukovych rejected the free trade agreement with the EU in November, thousands of Ukrainians peacefully... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Judgments; Geopolitical Units; Country; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Growth and Development; History; Europe; Ukraine; European Union; Russia
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  • 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

about the Women’s Soccer team. The story generated national headlines and thrust gender issues, and the University, into the media spotlight. In the following months, the breadth of this type of practice was revealed; the “scouting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

I was very concerned that students from developing nations would be taught to simply replicate the failures of the American and European systems." In addition, she does not believe that the developed world has all the answers.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

evolution of firms in different countries. In this case, the study of salespeople is related to questions of the wealth of national economies and to the competitive strength of multinational firms. Do salespeople play a role in either? A... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609011 China's Evolving Labor Laws Harvard Business School Case 308-092 The (A) case describes key provisions of the new labor contract law proposed by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

National Bureau of Economic Research) and popularize new statistical tools, like leading indicators and indexes of industrial production. On the other hand, though all forecasters dressed their predictions in the garb of rationality (with... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 03 Mar 2008
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Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

consumers trade down to models that stress good value, such as cars with fewer options. Tough times favor multi-purpose goods over specialized products, and weaker items in product lines should be pruned. In grocery-products categories, good-quality own-brands gain at... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

largest cement company in Spain, it was evident that a once nationally focused enterprise was ready to go head-to-head with leading corporations in Europe and the rest of the developed world. Because they developed their initial analysis... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

themselves (Study 2) at different income levels. Data from two national surveys revealed that while laypeople's predictions were relatively accurate at higher levels of income, they greatly overestimated the impact of income on life... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

and events through the eyes of the men and women watching them in real time: to follow the arc of time, if you will. And this represented an exciting intellectual opportunity for me, as a historian and scholar of entrepreneurial leadership. “The Times was a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

governments, and national and local support organizations. In 2018, the program had graduated 7,300 scholars—just 2,700 shy of the 10,000 target. The case examines the creation of the 10,000 Small Businesses ecosystem and asks students to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

New York City. It was 2006 and the housing market was peaking but had not yet crashed. Both Rose and Weinstein were experienced developers of low-income housing, the former as CEO of the Jonathan Rose Companies, a national developer, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

thinking through the issues facing rail transportation and discusses three recent freight rail infrastructure projects that hold promise for the future: the National Gateway, the Keystone Corridor, and the CREATE decongestion project in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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