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- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
particular product priced very attractively for consumers. With the XO laptop, action pricing met a new level of complexity. OLPC set a price goal, $100, which seemed challenging but doable based on the XO's technological building blocks... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
microfinance is helping to reduce Bangladesh's poverty levels by 2 percent a year. Paying The Way With Microfinance Michael Chu, a private-equity specialist at KKR before joining ACCION International, was instrumental in spreading... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
system in biotech. Parties entering into agreements bring different levels of information, causing valuation problems and high governance costs. IP rights are also tricky. The lawsuits that crop up in biotech are usually about IP, said... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
levels and demand post-COVID has resulted in firms seeking a return to the meritocracy of old through significant layoffs, restructuring, and new promotion practices. Though effective in achieving balance in the short term, such actions... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
opposed to increased levels of funding from the governments. Analyses of 2011 and 2012 state pension reforms confirm that states opposed to accounting reform are more likely to cut pension benefits. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Investment Management in Boston, told a Senate committee on March 4 that regulators need look no further than five factors historically associated with financial crises: inflated prices of real estate, institutions with high levels of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
employee communication about operational failures. Doing so may result in higher levels of frontline system-improvement efforts and ultimately improved work processes. Cases & Course MaterialsAllianz AG: Becoming a European Company... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
are skewed disproportionately amongst the rich, as the evidence suggests, then poorer matching in the marriage market will in turn lead to weaker bargaining positions for females. I test this theory and examine its implications for later life outcomes using India-wide... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
industrial washer in the spin cycle, putting entire industries (arts and entertainment, tourism, food and hospitality) at risk even as others (real estate, construction, and home services) experienced record demand. In the United States, unemployment and hunger hit new... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
level of maturity where scaling the business model was the next logical step. With two greenhouses already in Canada, he was looking into other locations in the U.S. Though Lufa Farms' advanced cultivation technologies made the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
and executive Kent Lineback have long studied the question of how managers grow and advance. Their experience brings them to a simple but troubling observation: Most bosses reach a certain level of proficiency and stay there—short of what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
be difficult to implement because of the complex interactions (or failures to interact) among many participants who deal with just one piece of an issue. Finally, solutions to these problems require concurrent actions at several system View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
the significance levels are lower. Cases & Course MaterialsAdnexus Therapeutics, Inc.: Considering the Exit Harvard Business School Case 609-015 Dr. John Mendlein, CEO of Adnexus Therapeutics Inc. (Adnexus), a private biotechnology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
policy we consider concerns the level of future Social Security benefits. Specifically, we examine how an agent would respond to learning in advance whether she will experience a major Social Security benefit cut starting at age 65. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
differs. ITunes provides a unified interface that seamlessly integrates the location, purchase, and consumption of content. Users of p2p networks, on the other hand, must navigate a complex environment and endure varying levels of... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
countries that differ greatly in terms of wealth (Canada, Uganda, and India). Finally, in Study 3, participants in Canada and South Africa randomly assigned to buy items for charity reported higher levels of positive affect than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
in payout taxes, we show that this prediction holds well. Payout taxes have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" to profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
question at an individual household level—not to mention at the level of boards of directors, CEOs, regulatory agencies, and politicians—is will we, and they, pick up the gauntlet of responsibility for our collective economy? What the... View Details