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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Letters to the Editor

Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W12522 A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

unconventional field settings. Their mission was to produce a DNA sequencing test that was cost effective, robust, and operable in extreme field conditions. After several months of effort, the team in consultation with company experts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2019
  • News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of our efforts on small molecules, like pills that you would take every day—Lipitor, Viagra, these... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606090 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Harvard Business School Note 106-068 Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2) substantial economic and reputational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

Micro Insurance Agency (MIA). Building on the experience in 10 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America of developing products appropriate to the sector and acceptable to risk carriers, and minimizing distribution and administration View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

prescription instructor telling her how she would sit in a cafe near one of her stores to hear what customers were saying about Mercadona's products and service. Information regularly moves up the chain from customers through employees to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • Profile

Marla Malcolm Beck

recalled. At that time, drug stores or department stores were the only places to buy cosmetics. No specialty channel yet existed. So Beck and her husband made a fateful choice: they went to Georgetown and purchased a beauty boutique and... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

issues is brief and non-technical. Provides actual deferred tax information from AOL's Form 10-K, where net operating loss carry forwards result in a large deferred tax asset and the accounting for software and deferred subscriber acquisition View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

and regulation of clinical trials, managerial challenges related to pharmaceutical product testing, and current debates regarding prescription drug safety. Since clinical testing takes between five and seven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

appears to owe more to management fads than to serious underperformance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54369 Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

This Is What I Do

to be police officers. “These girls are money,” says the director of a shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan, as she tells a visitor about one of her charges, an 11-year-old girl named Obaida, sold by her father into marriage to support his drug... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost of the primary product, but decreases the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

likely to be associated with a significant impact on regulatory relations. Finally, bribery cases where the main perpetrator is dismissed are less likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. These results shed light on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and commoditize than other sensory factors such as smell and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne