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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
noteworthy. In a plenary session titled "The Economic Crisis in Asia," Sugisaki urged Asian authorities to lower barriers to trade and investment and to close insolvent financial institutions and restructure... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
said, in some cases even enabling patients to treat themselves. Resistance to such a scenario is strong in the rules-based world of medicine, he conceded. "Disruptive innovation has been ignored or opposed by the leading institutions in... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
large-store formats, multiple-store formats and extensive channel blurring in the U.S. retail industry. Our analysis is based on aggregate segment-level data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), the Monthly Retail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
business environment or used along with any individual case. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308063 Corrections Corp. of America Harvard Business School Case 107-071 This case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
search affiliated sellers (stores). There are three motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total consumer traffic for higher revenues per consumer visit, 2)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
the peak of the market a significant fraction of institutional money was controlled by young managers, thanks in part to rising prices for tech stocks, the researchers say. We asked Greenwood to discuss the research and its implications... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
crisis is just as crucial as the response.” Over 60 percent of tech outages result in at least $100,000 in total losses, and 15 percent cost upward of $1 million, according to the Uptime Institute, a technology trade group. In severe... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
rights (IPR) and technology transfer? Fritz Foley: Before going to graduate school, I spent a year living in Sri Lanka. I was affiliated with the Institute of Policy Studies, an economic think tank, where I conducted research on... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
agglomeration economies, including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion, play a particularly important role in multinationals' economic geography. These findings remain robust when we use alternative measures of trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
Citicorp Investment Bank, first in New York, then in London. Then I came back, and for over 15 years, I worked at Institutional Investor. The last 10 of those years were as managing director of a research group that I helped to launch. By... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations. While such "institutional voids"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(New York Times, 2001), while Former President Clinton used his "bully pulpit" to urge corporations to attend to social problems (New York Times, 1996) and later advocated that minimum labor standards be a part of international View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
at talent development and, in particular, the misalignment between what employers are looking for, what individuals are looking for, and what institutions often are producing. So to me, working at Strada has really represented an... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace