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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered

By: Noel Maurer
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S. government did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; Mexico; United States
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  • 2008
  • Chapter

Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
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  • August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
  • Background Note

Fundamentals of Family Business System Governance

By: John A. Davis
Reviews the purposes and ingredients in the governance (or steering) of a family business system. Explores at a high level the governance of the family business, its owners, and the family. Focuses on how these governance structures, processes, plans, and agreements... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Family Ownership
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  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the strengthening of the existing... View Details
  • Web

Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

the SX-70 camera, Polavision, and sonar focusing An Invention that Controls Light Edwin Land describes the invention that launched Polaroid The Vectograph Polaroid developed a type of 3-D photography for use in World War II A Simple... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

sector has been dominated by big players. A few buyers like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland dominate global commodity trades, while a cluster of conglomerates like Monsanto and DuPont control vital farm inputs like seeds and chemicals,... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along with a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Research Brief: Lost in Translation

“non-plain” English: executive-speak, technical jargon, and multisyllabic words. A single standard deviation increase in non-plain English, for example, led to a 5.66 percent reduction in intraday trading volumes, even after controlling... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business

a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning at a Robotics Start-Up

a bit of everything. But at the same time, you get to have significant amount of ownership and control of your work and have significantly more impact on critical business decisions. So far, I have been working to build an effective... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • Portrait Project

Austin Dirks

doctor's hands worked back and forth in the rhythm and grace of a painter. I could feel my breath beat back against my mask, into my face. My scrub cap began to stick to my forehead with perspiration. Something was wrong. And I was alone. The pacemaker, a device able... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Richard Edelman

Chicago community, Edelman finds it natural to give back to society. A Civil War buff, he is an active board member of the New-York Historical Society. His interest in fitness and fighting obesity attracted him to the board of the Centers for Disease View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

who would keep control of those assets in the future, according to the case. So the same transmission lines, power transformers, and circuit breakers that were installed in the 1960s and '70s are still in operation, in many cases barely... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

randomly assigned to one of two groups: the "creative mindset" group and the control group. All were asked to construct sentences from sets of randomly positioned words. But in the creative mindset group, more than half of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 15 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

World Wide Web. "Of course it's true that Facebook became popular because it's really good at helping friends connect," Weaver says. "But I think a big chunk of the value of Facebook has little to do with social media, but instead flows from the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

WorldCom or Adelphia. The failures at those companies were more likely caused by a combination of fraud committed by individuals, inadequate control and governance systems that tolerated clear conflicts of interest, and a frothy market in... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

America the Difficult

bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

thing to do, but it also contributes to a feeling of fairness on the part of the people who remain. What are some of the things you've learned from your international experience? I used to think that Cummins should have a controlling... View Details