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Selling your Heritage: The Challenge of Legacy Divestitures

This paper studies companies that diversify away from and later divest their historical cores, or "legacy" businesses.  There are many reasons a firm might undertake this strategy, including a concentration of the legacy business in a declining... View Details

  • 2023
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Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to Be Forgotten

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Satyapriya Krishna and Jiaqi Ma
The Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten are two important principles outlined to regulate algorithmic decision making and data usage in real-world applications. While the right to explanation allows individuals to request an actionable explanation for an... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • October 2016 (Revised September 2017)
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The CRISPR-Cas9 Quarrel

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
In mid-2016, the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to... View Details
Keywords: CRISPR; Broad Institute; University Of California Berkeley; Intellectual Property; Patents; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Science; Genetics; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 04 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid

  • 01 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
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Interviewing - Alumni

ever been divorced? What do you do for child care? Legal : Are you willing to relocate? Are you willing and able to put in the amount of overtime and/or travel the position requires? Response : If you're asking whether anything is going to View Details
  • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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  • 01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

us that interfere with our well-being—for instance, the part of me that eats much more than I need to eat when I feel stressed. I took Schwartz’s work even more seriously when I heard the results of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickering, or displaying surliness and stupidity.” The manual provides several other tips for stirring up “general interference with organizations and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Demonstration Policy | About

the work of the School is carried out; or other places where demonstrations would interfere with the normal activities of the School. When a demonstration occurs, demonstrators may not: Inhibit the freedom of movement of members of the... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2001
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The Three Components of Family Governance

the board, that regulate family activity with the business. Guard against family interference with the business while seeing that the family's key goals are satisfied. Develop loyal, informed, contributing family shareholders. Scout the... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

of WMMC and still wishes to distribute it to his or her employees, I am certainly not going to attempt to interfere with that decision. Every book has useful insights. But in some ways, the message of WMMC may indeed be dangerous, or at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

Network Platforms Population Interference in Panel Experiments Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Professional Networks in China and America Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

emerged—and for those voters, the inviolability of the Panama Canal became one of their key issues. Panama's new government passed a constitutional amendment to make the Panama Canal Authority as independent as humanly possible, and credible accusations of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

there are certain actions a firm with less market share can justify but that become illegal when taken by a firm with large market share. Intel did not let the legal concerns interfere with its fighting spirit but channeled that desire to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

issue." Contingent concessions are almost risk-free. They allow you to signal to the other party that while you have room to make more concessions, it may be impossible for you to budge if reciprocity is not guaranteed. Keep in mind, however, that an over-reliance... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

public interests.” 9 It was leading political figures like Gladstone, economist Mark Casson contends, who “believed that the right of a railway to interfere with private property, in the interests of merchants and industrialists, could... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

debt is the idea that large unsustainable debt overhangs can interfere with the ability of governments to function. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff identify 26 historic episodes where gross public debt exceeded 90 percent of the GDP on... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

interference from the community because of their favorable reputation, while layoffs by other firms elsewhere were met with unrest and angst. The approach of the study is important, too. The discipline of strategy is not rich in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne