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  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

distribution of recipients across different groups by age, race, diagnosis, and blood type. "This gives policymakers the ability to focus on what's important and relevant," he adds. "Right now, they focus more on what the... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • December 2013
  • Case

Clique Pens: The Writing Implements Division of U.S. Home

By: Frank V. Cespedes and James Kindley
The Clique Pens Writing Implements division of U.S. Home is a manufacturer of a full line of pens, pencils, markers, and art supplies. Despite solid sales, division president Elise Ferguson has seen gross margins drop from 42% in 2010 to just over 36% in 2012 as a... View Details
Keywords: Production; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Compensation and Benefits; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stakeholder Relations (4) Business or Company Management (19) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (65) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (67) Change... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Policy
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  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where knowledge and value creation are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

performance using profitability, efficiency, leverage, and other ratios. Highlights Profit Margin Cash Conversion Cycle Show Hide Details Concepts Profitability Efficiency Leverage Other Ratios Impact of View Details
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

pay the U.S. statutory rate no matter where it invested and would make the decision on purely pretax rates of return. The goal of that regime is to leave the distribution of capital undistorted. Indeed, this path of thinking has been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

Scout troop, effective governance: Generates a sense of direction, values to live by or work by, and well-understood and accepted policies that tell organization members how they should behave or what they should do in certain... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

supporting Party interests, and the Party commits to refraining from expropriation. Additional predictions of the framework are tested and supported by the data. Keywords: Business and Government Relations ; Economic Systems ; Power and Influence ; Government... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

shops. Keywords: Business Model ; Cultural Entrepreneurship ; Social Entrepreneurship ; Business History ; Business and Government Relations ; Technological Innovation ; Cash ; Culture ; Distribution... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • Web

Economic Development in Rural Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

harness the efficient spatial distribution of economic activity rather than attempt to replicate urban economies A single national rural policy is unlikely to be meaningful and successful Each community... View Details
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than fourfold. We find moreover that NPEs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

because of aggressive discounting by its chief competitor. Revenue in one of Dreyer's new product lines began to drop. And one of its customers threatened to terminate its long-term distribution contract. “CEOs recognize that they have to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract We investigate the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Using a matched sample of 180 companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

its leaders distribute authority and delegate decision-making. Too often, leaders only communicate how digital transformation will improve the company’s performance. Instead, they must develop a narrative—a human-centric story—for how... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

  Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne