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  • April 2011
  • Module Note

The Boundaries of Customer Information Systems: Limiting Management Awareness of Strategic Opportunities

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Keywords: Customers; Information Management; Boundaries; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Credit and the Family: The Economic Consequences of Closing the Credit Gap of U.S. Couples

By: Olivia S. Kim
Closing disparities in credit access between spouses can help reduce consumption inequality in the household. The 2013 reversal of the Truth-in-Lending Act increased the borrowing capacity of secondary earners in equitable-distribution states but not in... View Details
Keywords: Household; Credit; Equality and Inequality; Income; Policy; Family and Family Relationships
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    The U.S. Needs an SEC for Its Health Care System

    The U.S. health care system suffers from a lack of transparency. Employers, insurers and individual consumers pay varying prices for treatments, drugs and digital information... View Details
    • June 1998
    • Article

    The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992

    By: Rawi Abdelal
    Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate... View Details
    Keywords: Money; Leadership; System; Balance and Stability; Europe
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    • January 1989
    • Case

    Cathay Pacific Airways (A): Globalization of Airline Reservation and Distribution Systems Technology

    By: James I. Cash Jr.
    Keywords: Air Transportation; Information Technology; Air Transportation Industry
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    • August 2001
    • Article

    The Geography of Investment: Informed Trading and Asset Prices

    By: Joshua D. Coval and Tobias J. Moskowitz
    Keywords: Investment; Trade; Asset Pricing
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    • 2010
    • Book

    The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

    By: as part of the Squam Lake Working Group Scharfstein, David S.
    In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
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    • October 1986 (Revised November 1989)
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson & Co.: VACUTAINER Systems Division

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Concerns negotiations between managers of Becton Dickinson's (BD) VACUTAINER division (which manufactures and sells blood collection products) and managers of a large hospital buying group. Recent changes in the health care industry are the background for the... View Details
    Keywords: Distribution; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Price; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2021
    • Article

    Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services

    By: Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain and Yunhan Xu
    This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least... View Details
    Keywords: Domain Name System; Resilience; Entropy; Internet and the Web; Infrastructure; Performance Effectiveness; Safety; Cybersecurity
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    • 05 Aug 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

    information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 16 Mar 2017
    • News

    Three Harvard Experts Explain How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines

    • 2019
    • Book

    The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

    By: Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert
    The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an “economic turn” that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; France; Europe
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    • September 2007
    • Article

    Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico

    By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber
    Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    • Web

    Industry Information - Alumni

    theoretical and empirical on cross-border banking, as well as information on regulatory initiatives. Reuters: Finance Breaking news on the banking industry delivered by Reuters journalists. + – Business of... View Details
    • 15 Feb 2000
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

    to today's Network Era characterized by the Internet. From roughly 1970 to 1980, DIS concentrated on the management of mainframes and the chief individual responsible for information technology, the View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 02 Nov 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
    • Article

    Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability

    By: Dennis Yao
    In this paper it is argued that failures of the competitive market are necessary conditions for supranormal profitability. Three fundamental causes of these market failures-production economies and sunk costs, transactions costs, and imperfect information-are developed... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Markets; Failure; Profit; Cost; Information; Market Transactions; Competition; Strategy; Production
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    • May 2024
    • Article

    Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries

    By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
    Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Networks; Investment Return; Business Cycles
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    • Research Summary

    Informing Brand Marketing Practice

    Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details
    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries

    By: Lee Fleming, J. Rivkin and O. Sorenson
    Keywords: Complexity; Boundaries; Information Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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