Closed Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The American system as defined in this note can be contrasted against the lack of developed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

dynamics, but you state that "few organizations aim to produce a shared perspective or set of morals as deliberately and consistently as the one presented here. And few have been doing so for as long, close to a century." So why... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

500,000 listings and counting. (By way of comparison, hotel industry giant Marriott offers around 530,000 rooms worldwide.) Airbnb, which has been valued at roughly $2.5 billion, recently closed a $200 million round of financing,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

he was, and wondered why I had asked. Well, I told him of some rules of thumb I have been working on to isolate entrepreneurial opportunities in a recession, and this question was meant as a test for one of the rules. I knew of several new car dealerships that were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

it defines a process to assess the match between those values and the behavior of its leaders; and it reports on its assessment to its people and its investors. Let me close with a personal commitment. Ultimately, our View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

within a state with a closely contested election during an election year. In the latter case, high employment firms were 25 percent less likely to be sanctioned than those in the bottom tier. These results suggest that while the reason... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

close examination and clear explanation of how the process of securitization transformed trillions of dollars of risky assets into securities that many considered to be a safe bet. Authored by HBS professors Joshua D. Coval and Erik... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

at-home services or take-home medications under the close supervision of a treatment professional. Many are taking advantage of the easing of telehealth restrictions to expand access and deliver services more efficiently. Still, many... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

that the tire grading system was close to becoming a reality. Second, Joan Claybrook, a former Nader consumer interest group lobbyist, had just become head of the National Highway Traffic Safety... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

ideas. This isn't traditional benchmarking, since managers don't simply copy something they see elsewhere. Rather, they take pieces of practice or technology that they find and recombine them in novel ways to solve customer problems. The CEMEX team that developed the... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and comprehensive patient... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

advantage of the inner city, though, comes not through the income of residents but rather what he called "income density"—a high population living in close quarters within any individual area. Inner cities can also boast... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

who also found the study to be a useful source of related research. At the same time, Silberman and EPA colleague David Hindin, senior policy director for innovation and next generation compliance, urged the researchers to look more View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

system testing, and system integration testing. Personal Motivation Specialisterne's founder, Thorkil Sonne, launched the company in 2004 following a high-level career in telecommunications IT.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

the ways that firms have sought to "game" the system. We explore why the system is breaking down and propose a way in which standard setting could be redesigned to address these problems. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology company, with the requisite speed... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

each other. If a Bank One customer, for instance, were interested in online banking, she might visit BankOne.com and learn what services the bank provides. She could also, however, surf over to Wingspanbank.com to find its more elaborate and competitively priced... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Agency to institute such a program. The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

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