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  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608123 Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank Harvard Business School Case 709-401 In August 2005, the leadership of Turkey's Dogus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

banning bankers from receiving annual bonuses exceeding more than twice their fixed pay. Lawyers for the United Kingdom actively oppose the rule, which is set to go into effect in 2015. In the meantime, several major banks have responded... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 31 Oct 2006
  • HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

because we owed it to ourselves. If it became worthless, those holding the debt—presumably the banks and most wealthy among us—would lose out to those who benefitted from the deficits causing the failure.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

to the U.S. offices of the firm and immediately sparked controversy, as some female associates claimed that the gender-specific advice in the memo was condescending and sexist. This controversy came close on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

Disney Company expects to lose up to $190 million on its summer fiasco The Lone Ranger, another star vehicle featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Welcome to the risky strategy of "blockbusters,"... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

(September 8, 2009) Abstract Boards members of failed banks in 2008 or of the many companies like Enron who were caught up in scandals are by and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Through the Generations Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

Bazerman Abstract Previously titled "Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation. This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310055-PDF-ENG Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (B) Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany ObenchainHarvard Business School Supplement 310-056 Having taken steps to shore up investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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