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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the magnitude of that effect. For... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
http://www.cbspress.dk/Visning-af-titel.848.0.html?&cHash=3818d01f1b&ean=9788763002417&code=kommende The Case for Professional Boards Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract When the world's largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower interest rates and lower quality intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no real impact.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
suggests this positive effect may stem from a desire to avoid shame. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-073.pdf Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
US business interests. If you put aside feelings about partisanship and individuals, there were a number of things the Trump administration did that were supportive of business growth and economic growth. But the volatility and dysfunctional relationship between View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
the market by setting the welfare-maximizing level of trade when the difference in the degree of asymmetric information between buyers and sellers is significant. However, if this difference is below a certain threshold, then even the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the evolution of the diversified business groups organized around British trading companies from the late eighteenth century until today, this chapter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Abstract—When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
Membership? Harvard Business School Case 707-032 China has been a member of the WTO for more than five years. Its implementation of requirements has been a mixed bag. While China's growth is still spectacular, many institutional problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm Institute (FFI) to develop professionals in the field. Now,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman