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- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good (like software) and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
created in-house labs capable of first-rate basic scientific research. In recent decades, however, the connection between science and business has begun to change in important ways. While the corporate lab declined, new "science-based businesses" in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
corporate sector is starting to wake up to the opportunity, but there is still much to be done. Perceptions are slow to change. Many business people still view inner cities as areas where there are no businesses, no workers to hold jobs,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Recommendations are based on analyses of individuals’ career histories in the professional services sector and other settings, such as appliance manufacturing, oil and gas, health care, and education. The article proposes strategies on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a banking sector that provides liquidity and has excessive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
and shared significant export agribusiness sectors, but whose organic food sector became significantly larger. While the power of incumbent vested interests and unsupportive public policies emerge as major explanatory factors, the article... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
country." [We were then able to cross-check data for blocks which had Jewish institutions versus blocks that did not.] "What is crucial is that we can obtain an estimate of by how much the police presence deters crime." View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
the private sector has responded rationally, by exiting the business. Of the twenty-five companies that made vaccines in the U.S. thirty years ago, only five remain today. The Federal Government has,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
bonds to relatively wealthy investors—became integrated in a quite novel way in the course of the 1960s. The rise of the so-called 'Eurobond' market was a major breakthrough in the history of European integration, but it was a largely spontaneous result of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
debt for new securities worth 35 cents on the dollar, with no recognition of all past-due interest. Many holdouts, however, remain outside the deal. Some experts believe that Argentina's stance will have negative consequences for the country's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability, we predict this should reduce insiders' ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
counterparts in sectors that were hardest hit by the subsequent crisis. We present a model where higher turbulence benefits decentralized firms because the value of local information and urgent action increases. Since turbulence rises in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne