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  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

governance system (ownership and regulation, and country of origin). The results confirm that factors in each of these areas are important determinants of the size and structure of headquarters. Performance data suggest that these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Massport, Back on Course

outsourcing for businesses. The Massachusetts Port Authority operates Logan International Airport, two regional airports in the Boston area, the Port of Boston, and the Tobin Memorial Bridge, which connects downtown with the northern... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

transactions that were favorable to the SPE but not to Enron. The furor over expensing is, if anything, a sideshow distracting us from deeper flaws in accounting standards, compensation philosophy, and professional standards in the... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

recorded information including the asking price of the rental, the characteristics of the apartment or room, and the average rating each host had received. (The site's structured rating system lets guests rate the hosts and properties on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

The Baby Business

Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the assembly line, saw an opportunity to create a more compact and cost-efficient test View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

requires turning away from what made them successful. The tightly integrated business systems that have worked in their home markets are unlikely to secure their future in global markets. Samsung has steadily navigated this paradox to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 05 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

The ills of the U.S. healthcare system are well chronicled—soaring costs, low customer satisfaction, increasing problems with quality, and restricted coverage lead the list. But do we really understand the underlying issues well enough to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

business and society. In its Winter 2008 issue, Business History Review included five articles on salesmanship: "Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900-1938" (by Andrew Gordon) "Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in securities transactions per week. A few years ago, online transactions were nonexistent at Schwab. But just as significant as the explosion... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 30 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

negotiating with an athlete can be expected to be guided by the club's interests, while the player's agent is looking out for the client's demands. When independent buyers and sellers hammer out a transaction this way, the market's... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

makers for change. The focus is on quantitative targets; channel tactics for effecting sales transactions are taken for strategy. No one has an eye on the go-to-market system as a whole, and no one steps... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 08 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

suggest that even those who had accepted payment during the first encounter did not view the transaction as an ordinary exchange. Rather, the willingness to let someone cut in seems to be based on seeing the situation as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable discussion, moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

  Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

which a Nash equilibrium exists while the set of Nash equilibria coincides with the solutions of the system of first order condition equations, a property of essential importance to empirical studies. This condition specifies that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

Satisfaction Buell's general research agenda considers how firm-level decisions affect customer actions and firm performance. He is continuing to collaborate with Campbell and Frei on a research project that explores different parts of a bank's operating View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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