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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
patent applicants, because it allows the applicant to shape its patents to evolving circumstances while retaining the priority date associated with the original application. In Rambus' case, as late as 1999 it was modifying its patent... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
should the acquiring firm A modify its own business model and/or fold itself into its acquisition B, rather than trying to integrate B into the old business model? The case also touches upon themes related to the management of human... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
PublicationsLords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2010) Abstract Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
member illness). Note that even with advance planning, a student should anticipate and be prepared to address unforeseen accessibility conditions throughout the immersion. To this end, on a case-by-case basis, the Global Experience Office reserves the right to View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
1990s, many companies introduced ERP systems that captured data at the transaction level. It was natural to think how we could modify ABC systems to benefit from the ready availability of transactional data about orders, products, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
modify an assignment - perhaps to capitalize on a particularly interesting discussion in the previous day's class - they simply go into the database, make the change, and it's instantly available to all the students in the course. So, we... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the political authorities of capitalism had to acquire the capacity, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
took advantage of the coalescing context of their times. They built businesses that thrived in a specific contextual framework and modified their operations and leadership styles as the contextual factors evolved. Some admittedly were in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
maintaining a long-term vision to continually quantify and modify for ongoing improvement. It’s All About the Idea: 52 Steps to Make You and Your Team More Creative in the Next Year by Tom Tuke-Hastings (AMP 189) (The British Business... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and does not turn brown after cutting. Unlike other GMOs, it does not contain foreign genes. The case describes the company's commercialization plans in light of the complex environment surrounding genetically modified foods. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
different kind of game that produces results of a different type—if you are pretty certain that you're ready to change the intent of your bets, or at least that you are ready to modify or expand the kinds of results you are seeking.... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
shoppers modify their behavior to take advantage of reward or loyalty deals. How do behaviors such as cherry-picking and stockpiling play into the equation? A: When we looked at this data, we didn't see much of a stockpiling effect. Worst... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
commitments," Badaracco notes. "When an M&A; modifies or breaks these contracts, as they sometimes must, compensation may be due to people and groups that reasonably depended on the company to make good on its commitments. Thus, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
scheduled dates—albeit in a modified (virtual) form. NFL scouts had the entire 2019 college football season to evaluate prospects. The NFL Combine, another opportunity to see select recruits in action, went ahead as planned at the start... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
over what time frame, is an expression of those values. The commitment to reconsider, evaluate, question, and modify your decisions in light of your values is an expression of character. With an overly narrow focus on the near-term... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Olympic committee staff and volunteers; 35 new or modified venues; 35 training sites; 8 Olympic villages; 11.2 million tickets; and 750,000 nights' worth of accommodations. But perhaps the most significant number of all has been the $1.7... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
presumably based on its distinctive competence, rather than consciously serving the customer. Levitt thus argued that when companies fail, "it usually means that the product fails to adapt to the constantly changing patterns of consumer needs and tastes, to new... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
to a scale and size where the attackers are actually modifying their behavior based on what we do.” Of course, not all attackers go right at the wall. Some of the biggest hacks rely on human error to walk them through the front door. When... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne