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  • 04 Jan 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

wrong in terms of deal process design. Back in October 2008, when the EESA [Emergency Economic Stabilization Act] was passed by Congress, the Treasury Department intended to buy back the so-called toxic assets through a reverse auction... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

economy was managed spectacularly, with inflation brought down to single digits relatively quickly, budget balances within a reasonable ability to pay, and political stability guaranteed by the ANC's (African National Congress)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2006
  • Article

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Software; Demand-side Learning; Network Effects; Linux; Mixed Duopoly; Competitive Dynamics; Business Models; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Model; Mathematical Methods; Digital Platforms; Profit; Balance and Stability; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; SWOT Analysis; Competition; Price; Information Technology Industry
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  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

among those who think they have nothing to lose. Western governments have also come to appreciate that the world's financial system, which came close to meltdown on several occasions in the 1990s, depends on political stability to sustain... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data collection and dissemination among businesses so as to stabilize prices and facilitate interfirm cooperation instead of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

the nature of competition. Furthermore, relative to platforms that cannot charge such fees, platforms that charge positive (negative) access fees to consumers have weaker (stronger) incentives to divert search August 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics Matching with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

blurring by retailers have generally increased both inventory levels and gross profit dollars across retail segments. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-078.pdf New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

engaged in "status rationalization," emphasizing the benefits Japanese employees might obtain by learning English, and prevaricated on whether the change was temporary or durable, a process we call "status stability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

leverage over a country's government. In the case of the Panama Canal, for example, the United States was concerned enough about maintaining political stability in the country during the construction of the canal to install a fiscal agent... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

electric vehicles in China and electric buses in Europe and America. It just opened two plants in Michigan, partially funded by a grant from America's stimulus fund. At the same time, the company is expanding its business in large, grid View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well." This targeted approach, Moss believes, helped ensure both stability and innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

most effectively stabilizes fluctuations under real external shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-074.pdf Patent Trolls By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

stabilize prices, develop a plan to rationalize capacity, and so on. The mentality was that all companies should share equally in the pain; then no one will get hurt too badly. Of course, this approach leads to a perpetually uncompetitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

participate or withdraw. Students need to use judgment with respect to estimates of key variables including stabilized income, construction cost, and minimum expectations for return on investment in order to prepare their bids. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

considerable amount of high-quality research has been done regarding financial stability. Some of these steps were prompted by regulatory changes—or anticipation of such changes. But perhaps the biggest force in stabilizing the financial... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

topic for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-016.pdf Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples Authors:Claus-Jochen Haake, Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract We consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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