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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
as "transparency," are in vogue these days. Perhaps we should add "self-fulfilling prophecies" to the list. They have become particularly relevant as comparisons of the current economic situation to the Great View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
of power. In 1938, as the Great Depression was beginning to lift, but war was imminent, many families were struggling, and only 10 percent of engagement rings sold in the United States included diamonds. De... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
activity and new venture financing is an age old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial, and in most cases they tend to fail. In the United States, debate about the role of government in these areas can be traced back to at least the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Who do you think was the most significant figure in the history of sales? A: Probably John H. Patterson at National Cash Register (NCR). Patterson, who lived from 1844 to 1922, was a contemporary of the Henry J. Heinz, William S. Burroughs, and other founders of View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
directly competitive product, if the rival introduces an inferior substitute, it may damage consumers' perceptions and depress sales in the entire product category. As a result, intellectual property protection must be seen as not a... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
The world's fair in New York City at the end of the depression decade was a big deal. Planning began in 1935. The fairgrounds covered 1,216.5 acres in what had been a garbage dump in Queens. By opening day, April 30, 1939, the moonscape... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
to correct that market failure by investing in minority stakes in private companies or lending at subsidized rates to such firms." At the same time, many Communist and former Communist countries have gone to great lengths to overcome the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
years during the crisis and subsequent recovery. In addition, collateral owned by small businesses lost value during the financial crisis, potentially making small business borrowers less creditworthy today—in fact, small business credit scores are lower now than... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
great gadget" and improve the educational possibilities for children in impoverished environments? Tech-savvy people as well as the socially conscious have been intrigued by the idea of "one laptop per child" since it made... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
with a lot of turbulence: "a very dramatic run off" of activity in the 1980s, followed by a decline in activity that led to a depression for much of the early 1990s, followed by a gradual recovery during the mid-1990s. "The... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state policing powers rather than intrastate trade. Aided by the Great Depression The Fair Trade Act brought businesses to California and led to other states enacting similar legislation. The View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
New Deal. Still, it was an important stepping-stone from the previous generation who did not fathom a role for government in modifying the business cycle at all. Q: What effect did the Great Depression have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise in a family already made brittle in various ways by the View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209144 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-045 In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the Great... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace