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  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of actuarial science, and the impact of changes in political and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Beacon, a proposal to spin off most of GE Capital to GE shareholders, and Project Hubble, a proposal to sell off GE Capital in parts. A third document sketched out the implications should GE “stay the course” on its present strategy: a continued, massive build-up of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Your Own Medicine

dollars. All told, the process takes about 10 to 15 years. "I think we're all frustrated, we're all disappointed," explains PhRMA's EVP of scientific and regulatory affairs Bill Chin, former executive dean for research at Harvard Medical... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

are also consistent with SOX and regulatory actions reducing the incentives to sell ahead of privately known negative news. Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels Author:Anita Elberse Publication:Journal of Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

wondered if the regulatory events might affect Goodyear's ability to maintain its world leadership in the tire industry. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707494 J.R.D. Tata Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

opportunities arise at home and abroad. Before inking a deal these days, venture firms need a global perspective on competition, if not a global presence, especially in China and India. Meanwhile, industry insiders worry that post-Enron View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

investment is seen as a more stable source of foreign savings because it's far less liquid. In the ideal world, it will also bring additional technologies or management skills to the recipient countries. Through regional development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

there were strong financial returns to technological development. Finally, we document an inverted-U shaped relationship between inequality and innovation but also show that innovative places tended to be more socially mobile. Our new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

continue to support the global fight against HIV/AIDS while positioning his company for growth in a changing regulatory landscape. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511050-PDF-ENG Competing through Business Models:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

  PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

others. For our empirical analyses, we use 10 years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that individuals learn more from their own successes than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

effect of the P&I sector on yields and to show that P&I demand is in part driven by hedging linked to the regulatory discount curve. When regulators reduce the dependence of the regulatory discount... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

degree of stability and predictability. Many businesspeople thought elements of the Trump administration were favorable, such as a reduction in regulatory burdens and taking more aggressive steps toward foreign parties, especially China,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne