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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
having to shift around old inventory, and finance would be able to free up capital that had been tied up in inventory. Mattel Canada used collective conversations so effectively that it transformed its division from Mattel's least... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide extent of misconduct among financial advisers and the associated labor market consequences of misconduct. Seven percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
international dynamics. In this concise and incisive analysis, Andrew Cainey and Christiane Prange explain what is happening in China and how this affects its relations with other countries. They identify what foreign companies need to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details
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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
had from such a historical understanding of political economy and of power in an economic age. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53309 forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
School Case 308-094 After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin Following an View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
in Brazil and Mexico organize their networks differently to deal with the different institutional settings? How can we compare the impact of the institutional structure of Mexico and Brazil on the networks of entrepreneurs and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
our entrepreneurial heritage and our leadership position in this unique industry. There's a real sense of mission here as eachof us personalizes this vision of what Liz Claiborne can become."Under the rubric "Boise Cascade is back, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
Inkpen Abstract—The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
Commission and uses AI to determine whether a donor’s last name was of South Asian descent. Now we’re running an analysis on how South Asians finance campaigns—to understand where people are putting their dollars—that offers more nuance... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
off if platforms were compatible, the quest for market dominance by competing platform providers prevents them from agreeing to a common standard. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-058.pdf The Economics of Structured View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
to gain much traction and proposes measures that will better protect the rights of property owners. We asked Wells to discuss his research and experiences representing host governments in such negotiations, and what international managers... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
enduring legacy. An inability to secure credit emerged as a primary obstacle to financing construction projects. The CEMEX team discovered that to raise capital for building, poor Mexicans would organize tandas, lotteries in which a group... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Sandra J., and Matthew Preble Abstract—The article discusses an intern for the technology security company Zantech addressing her concerns about her boss in Seoul, South Korea, regarding an inappropriate suggestion on misrepresenting her... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne