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- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
of cards that is being held up largely by a Communist regime and foreign investors who are for the most part silent about the results of their Chinese investments. Where does the truth lie—at the extremes or somewhere in between these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Understanding these biases can help managers develop alternative scheduling regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
business environment. Whereas twenty years ago the appropriability regime of an industry was exogenous and given, today they are often the product of conscious strategies of firms. And as open source software and other industries show,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
209-111 This note briefly describes bankruptcy regimes and out-of-court restructuring in five countries: the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, and Japan. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209111 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
What really strikes me is how enduring the governmental institutions they helped create have been. Raqqa, for example, still has a women’s council, and women co-lead every civil council (the governing body of each town), even though in theory the Syrian View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
domestic civil society and when their buyers are more sensitive to such exposure. At the program design level, we find that suppliers improve more when the monitoring regime signals a cooperative approach and when auditors are highly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
result, it relies heavily on partnering with others in the development of application software. Its product development is organized around sometimes competing teams operating under a regime with the philosophy that "The system is,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Korea is one of the best-imagined pieces of literature on life under authoritarianism I have encountered. The protagonist, Jun Do (think ‘John Doe’), goes from obscure orphan to absurd hero, all the while exposing the fragility of the View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
countries, these deals can last for a while. More democratic regimes and the emergence of NGOs, however, ensure that such deals will come under attack rather soon. To take illustrations from another continent: Two large foreign companies... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
risk, no competitors, and no political uncertainty around election outcomes, regime change, or expropriation. Historically, all of these factors have been favorable in the United States and that’s why the municipal bond market is so... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
capture of accounting regulation by segments of the financial-services industry. Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/why-fair-value-is-the-rule/ar/1 Working PapersCarry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
has evolved dramatically over the last 30 years with a greater reliance on markets rather than banks, and our regulatory regime has not kept up with those changes. That is one of the reasons we had a subprime crisis. The second is that... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
the subsequent international backlash in a number of ways. “Increasing restrictions to transnational commerce in and with China are best understood in terms of security dilemma dynamics.” We argue that China’s turn to regime security as a... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who preferred the competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity and other institutional investors and (2) Congress should consider a new statute to streamline the recapitalization of bank holding companies by moving them outside current bankruptcy laws into a new resolution regime similar to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
majority of investors in U.S.-listed foreign firms from the protection of the U.S. civil liability regime and cast at least partial limitations on the SEC's regulatory authority. This event nonetheless was met with positive abnormal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
find that being tied through elite sociopolitical networks to the regime in power significantly increased the rate at which South Korean companies formed cross-border strategic alliances, but also that being tied through elite... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
opportunities. “The legacy of the Cold War, governance issues, and the need to maintain stable political regimes and economies represent challenges in the region,” he explains. “Countries like Peru have done a good job over the past 20... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne