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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is...
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by Robert Simons
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
small-business owners can purchase their own low-cost indoor air quality monitors to measure these factors in real time, independent of what the landlord or plant manager may be saying, giving them a measure of confidence that what they...
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- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
HealthPartners, an independent nonprofit that is one of three health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the Minneapolis market. HealthPartners has an enrollment of about 675,000 people, and its network consists of approximately 3,700...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives to advertising, known as substitutes in Porter's framework, include options like...
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Nordisk. At United Technologies, whose products include Carrier air conditioners, Otis elevators, and Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, a recent integrated report focused on such nonfinancial metrics as lower fuel consumption and...
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by Staff
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
outstanding debt. To illustrate, most press reports peg the current U.S. deficit at $1.5 trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. Most observers believe that the...
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by Staff
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Rhetoric and Independence Are Not Enough: Empowering Managers and Directors to Do What Is Right, you challenge the adequacy of the Business Roundtable's assertion that the selection of a well-qualified and ethical CEO is the most...
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by Carla Tishler
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
lives of characters who solve puzzles and evolve over time across books, I’m reading the newest offerings from several favorite novelists and returning to every book in their series that I can find. The late Sue Grafton created Kinsey Mullone, a private detective who...
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by Staff
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front costs in View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
confidence. Their continued enthusiasm to lobby their senators and representatives will be important to his ability to legislate his campaign promises. Governing as president therefore requires a combination of “push” and “pull” marketing. Coca–Cola pushes its View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four audit firm, and have a higher...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate...
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- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
Cotton Manufacturing At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton textiles. In fact, Britain became so...
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Sean Silverthorne