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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the 19th century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of business, government, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
Brazil and Mexico relied on very different institutional structures, both countries grew at similar rates of growth between 1890 and 1913. However, the dense and exclusive Mexican network might have ended up increasing the social and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea space" granted through the patent. Strong legal protection of IP has made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
subsidiary exclusively dedicated to microfinance. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/309126-PDF-ENG Jo Worthington (A) Dorothy LeonardHarvard Business School Case 911-404 A relatively inexperienced professor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence, composition). This limits our understanding of a range of other... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed-income markets, many investors focus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
entire album at once and exclusively via the Apple iTunes Store, without any prior promotion-a significant, and potentially very risky, departure from how music was traditionally released. Sony Music's label Columbia Records, with whom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations, 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements, or 3) absorbing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
exclusive right of way, typically an elevated guideway, though track can also be installed at or below ground level. A vehicle leaves when passengers are ready, and service is nonstop from origin to destination, with no intermediate stops... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board of directors can best further stockholders' interests by (a) selecting managerial personnel who are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
invariably cleared to facilitate circulation. The quiet that reigns on campus is surprising given its size and density. With more than thirty-four acres of land devoted exclusively to the educational endeavor and a daytime... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
competition results in a lower quantity and lower welfare than a monopoly. We consider two applications of the model. First, we consider multi-homing. We find that multi-homing solves the market failure resulting from asymmetric information. However, if platforms can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
first-of-its-kind, three-year agreement with Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Entertainment that gave SpringHill Entertainment a first-look movie deal, an exclusive television deal, significant development resources that also could be used... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
reserves and channeling them (until very recently) almost exclusively into U.S. government securities, China has kept nominal and real long-term interest rates artificially low. In our view, it is this wedge between returns on capital and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
childhood friend Maverick Carter as the CEO. LRMR is tasked with turning James into a global icon as well as helping him reach his personal goal of becoming basketball's first billionaire. In late 2008, James has entered various lucrative endorsement deals and is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
their decision rights within firms, but managers can seek permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dismiss proposals. We find that managers seek to exclude 39% of all proposals they receive, but the SEC does not permit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
in industrial water and wastewater systems. Woteer had expressed an interest in gaining exclusive access to Oasys' forward osmosis technology for water treatment applications in China in exchange for an equity investment. Jim Matheson,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne