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  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

complicated bankruptcy in US history, emerged from Chapter 11 with a confirmed plan of reorganization in only three and a half years. Because of Chapter 11 and the expertise of US restructuring professionals who advise troubled companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

and complicated than it is today. So I would say the primary impact of the FDA over the past century has been to make predictable the safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products regulated by the agency. As consumers we don't have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

inversions are often not greeted with a positive price reaction. In short, the view that tax avoidance is simply a net transfer of value from the state to shareholders is complicated by the agency problem between shareholders and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

against large upfront investment, uncertain market demand, and the complication that the product might face legal challenges. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208072 Gucci Group in 2009... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

removal business, you’re on your own. This must change. A more complicated set of regulatory issues is looming around big data and artificial intelligence. My book focuses attention and predictions on what the world will look like as big... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

citing the examples of Motorola, Southwest Airlines, Revlon cosmetics, Hewlett-Packard, and MTV. Good ideas are not hard to come by. The more complicated part is to harness the diminishing supply of capital. But capital can still find its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

intense margin pressure. This case allows students to discuss the keys to Beingmate’s past successes and debate its existing strategy in the context of a very complicated market. One key question is how Beingmate might leverage its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

context in which the company operates, and so on. Designing and evaluating a business model is a complicated task, given all the considerations that must influence your decisions—external opportunities and threats, internal resources,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

cash-only offer from Cablevision, and a $15 billion cash-only offer from KKR and Providence. The fact that both Comcast and Cablevision are themselves family-controlled and with a large wedge between the family's ownership and control rights further View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

broad-based therapies. Instead, the focus should be on enrolling subpopulations, based on diagnostic testing, in trials of targeted drug treatments and on monitoring and assessing effectiveness after drugs are approved. A dysfunctional payment system View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a little more complicated than... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

resulting wine. This decision is further complicated by the fact that ripe Riesling grapes can be vinified in two ways, resulting in two different styles of wine. Their relative prices would depend on the uncertain preference of consumers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

School and the NASA Tournament Lab, many organizations "are finding that making open innovation work can be more complicated than it looks." Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

and other contexts that pose stiff ethical challenges. Trinh seeks to combine his background in financial services with his desire to contribute to Vietnam's economic development, and he has to decide among four job offers with investment firms. But it is a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

Behavioral research suggests that human learning in some multi-agent systems can be predicted with surprisingly simple "foresight-free" models. The current note discusses the implications of this research, and its relationship to the observation that social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

to others. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-007 Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet? The prescription eyeglass lens industry was complicated and highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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