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  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: U.S. Law and Economics in the 1920s By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no impact on the real economy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the magnitude of that effect. For... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

Membership? Harvard Business School Case 707-032 China has been a member of the WTO for more than five years. Its implementation of requirements has been a mixed bag. While China's growth is still spectacular, many institutional problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

shortage of high quality applicants. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15006   PublicationsPreferential Treatment: The New Face of Protectionism? Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2009)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

underlie pricing algorithms require revisiting as conditions change. To ensure that institutional knowledge is embedded in pricing algorithms, managers can also consider hybrid solutions that offer suggested prices, enabling quicker... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

the airline to work with the court to restructure and unload a significant amount of its debt, giving an iconic company "a second bite of the apple," says Gilson. An unabashed advocate of Chapter 11 and debt restructuring, Gilson is an expert in the legal... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309023 Note on Trade Secrets and Covenants Not to Compete: Comparison of Law in the United States and the European Union Harvard... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

scale has ever been attempted. Moreover, the plan has numerous question marks over how it would work. How would financial institutions get taxed? Would pass-through entities have their current treatment? Most importantly, it’s not clear... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

in the world of finance. They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world. But these elite investors live outside the public eye. Across the entire investment industry,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

export. With globalization, supply chains are lengthening and that means growth for railroads and other transportation modes.” According to the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, if U.S. railroads shipped 10... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

approach across multiple business units. Social Entrepreneurs as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Sekem Authors:Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair, and Julie Battilana Publication:In Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long time, although changes in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace