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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
revenue option entailed keeping the existing features unchanged and rolling out a bundle of eight new services for a monthly fee of $15. These services would be targeted at network members who had forged many connections, logged in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243 forthcoming Governance Elite Strategies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
colonialism, European integration, and violent territorial expansion within Europe itself. Using the debate as a lens to understand the connections between a wide range of policy responses, this article argues that efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
shocks that disfavored what had been a successful growth model. Finally, scholars have also stated that exceptionalism is a consequence of poor policy choices, in particular a tendency towards state intervention and isolationism. Next, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
spurred cultural, economic, and regulatory changes that make continuing venture capital success in these markets likely. Q: Who is your target audience—who can benefit by reading The Money of Invention and why? A: Our book has three... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
care, but this does not have to be true if employees can purchase private insurance on exchanges. I believe that we will start to see more demand for this kind of policy in the coming months. Amitabh Chandra (@amitabhchandra2) is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
the ownership decisions and financial policies employed for Shanghai General Motors provide an opportunity to discuss the results from "The Costs of Shared Ownership" and "A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure... View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
professor Bharat Anand give students an introduction to the book publishing business and the emerging landscape of e-readers before presenting them with the conundrums that face Random House CEO Markus Dohle (Dohle succeeded Olson in 2008): Should the company pursue a... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
where FNC was available. Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which put a cap on soft money donations to national political parties, firms were allowed to make large donations to parties whose proposed View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by bordering states. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
prices across the board, instituting price-match policies with online retailers, or accepting that they will lose sales to customers who are showrooming. In all of these circumstances, either because of price reductions or fixed cost... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
hand. You cannot resolve design issues—such as whether to adopt a direct or an indirect channel or, if indirect, how many levels are appropriate—without a sense of how distribution policies and practices are translated. Similarly, you... View Details