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      • October 2004 (Revised January 2006)
      • Tutorial

      Introduction to Responsibility Accounting Systems

      By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan, Jacob Cohen and Michele Jurgens
      Responsibility accounting systems generate financial and related nonfinancial information about the actual and planned activities of a company's responsibility centers--organizational units headed by managers responsible for a unit's performance. The principal... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Cost Accounting; Governance Controls; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting; Planning
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      "Introduction to Responsibility Accounting Systems." Harvard Business School Tutorial 105-703, October 2004. (Revised January 2006.)
      • September 2004
      • Article

      Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

      By: Eric J. Van den Steen
      Rational agents with differing priors tend to be overoptimistic about their chances of success. In particular, an agent who tries to choose the action that is most likely to succeed, is more likely to choose an action of which he overestimated, rather than... View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Expectations; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Failure; Success; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Ethics
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      Van den Steen, Eric J. "Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)." American Economic Review 94, no. 4 (September 2004): 1141–1151.
      • August 2004 (Revised April 2007)
      • Case

      Intel Capital, 2005 (A)

      By: David B. Yoffie, Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden and Lee Rand
      All companies in a technology-intensive industry must worry about the development of their ecosystems and, in particular, the availability and cost of complementary assets. One strategy for promoting complements is to invest in them directly. Explores Intel's strategy... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Assets; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Yoffie, David B., Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden, and Lee Rand. "Intel Capital, 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-408, August 2004. (Revised April 2007.)
      • August 2004
      • Article

      Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Alberto Alesina and Robert MacCulloch
      We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total of 123,668 answers to a survey question about “happiness”. We find that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Happiness; Global Range; Local Range; United States; Europe
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      Di Tella, Rafael, Alberto Alesina, and Robert MacCulloch. "Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?" Journal of Public Economics 88, nos. 9-10 (August 2004): 2009–42.
      • June 2004 (Revised September 2005)
      • Case

      Cox Communications, Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jonathan Gibbons
      Cox Communications, the third largest U.S. cable television system operator, is confronting strategy decisions in mid-2004. Cox managers must decide whether to speed its deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which offers capital and operating costs savings... View Details
      Keywords: Customers; Information Technology; Competition; Product Development; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jonathan Gibbons. "Cox Communications, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 804-192, June 2004. (Revised September 2005.)
      • spring 2004
      • Article

      Multinationals and Linkages: An Empirical Investigation

      By: Laura Alfaro and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
      Several recent papers have used plant-level data and panel econometric techniques to carefully explore the existence FDI externalities. One conclusion that emerges from this literature is that it is difficult to find evidence of positive externalities from... View Details
      Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Brazil; Chile; Venezuela; Mexico
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Andres Rodriguez-Clare. "Multinationals and Linkages: An Empirical Investigation." Economía (spring 2004).
      • 2004
      • Working Paper

      Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York

      By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
      Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details
      Keywords: History; Law; Competition; Financial Liquidity; Money; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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      Moss, David A., and Sarah Brennan. "Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-038, April 2004.
      • March 2004 (Revised October 2013)
      • Case

      Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns

      By: Mihir A. Desai, Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer and Mark Veblen
      What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor? How do currencies interact with stock price movements in determining the benefits of international diversification? This case helps students compare the risks and returns of foreign stock... View Details
      Keywords: Diversification; International CAPM; CAPM; Home Bias; Currency Risk; Exchange Rate Risk; International Stock Market Returns; United States; Currency Exchange Rate; Stocks; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Return; Currency; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; United States; Australia; Canada; China; Germany; India; Japan; United Kingdom
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      Desai, Mihir A., Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer, and Mark Veblen. "Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Case 204-141, March 2004. (Revised October 2013.)
      • January 2004 (Revised February 2005)
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      A Note on Methodological Fit in Management Field Research

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Stacy McManus
      To use in doctoral-level management courses on the design of field research methods. Advocates the importance of fit, or internal consistency, among the different elements of a field research project. Although the scientific method provides an essential framework for... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Research
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Stacy McManus. "A Note on Methodological Fit in Management Field Research." Harvard Business School Background Note 604-072, January 2004. (Revised February 2005.)
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      Improving Environmental Performance Assessment: Comparative Analysis of Weighting Methods used to Evaluate Chemical Release Inventories

      By: Michael W. Toffel and Julian D. Marshall
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      Toffel, Michael W., and Julian D. Marshall. "Improving Environmental Performance Assessment: Comparative Analysis of Weighting Methods used to Evaluate Chemical Release Inventories." Journal of Industrial Ecology 8, nos. 1-2 (January 2004): 143–172.
      • December 2003 (Revised November 2015)
      • Background Note

      The Fiduciary Relationship: A Legal Perspective

      By: Lynn Sharp Paine
      Discusses the concept of a fiduciary, as developed in the Anglo-American common law tradition, and outlines the principal differences between the legal standard applied to fiduciaries compared to ordinary arms'-length contractors. View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Assets; Financial Management; Common Law; Standards
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      Paine, Lynn Sharp. "The Fiduciary Relationship: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-064, December 2003. (Revised November 2015.)
      • November 2003 (Revised April 2010)
      • Case

      Flextronics International, Ltd.

      By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
      Describes Flextronics' evolution from providing outsourced manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the electronics industry to developing entire unbranded products for purchase by OEMs. In 2001, Flextronics began a development program that... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Production; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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      Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "Flextronics International, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 604-063, November 2003. (Revised April 2010.)
      • September 2003
      • Case

      Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group

      By: Mihir A. Desai, Paolo Notarnicola and Mark Veblen
      A team of private equity investors must value the leveraged buyout of a Yellow Pages business that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In the process, they must wrestle with issues of how to conduct cross-border valuations and how to value a... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Valuation
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      Desai, Mihir A., Paolo Notarnicola, and Mark Veblen. "Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group." Harvard Business School Case 204-033, September 2003.
      • September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
      • Case

      Emergence, Valhalla, and Orchid: Divergent Models for Venture Capital Funds

      By: William A. Sahlman and Matthew Willis
      Compares and contrasts three different venture capital funds from the perspective of a potential investor. The first fund has a technology-enabled services preference, the second a Mid-Atlantic region preference, and the third a seed round preference. Students are... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Information Technology; Venture Capital
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      Sahlman, William A., and Matthew Willis. "Emergence, Valhalla, and Orchid: Divergent Models for Venture Capital Funds." Harvard Business School Case 804-056, September 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
      • 2003
      • Book

      Business History Around the World

      By: Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones
      This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. It provides wide-ranging surveys of the literature in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Japan and the Chinese-speaking world, and examines... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Debates; Business History; Body of Literature; Surveys; Business and Government Relations; Research; China; Japan; Europe; Latin America; United States
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      Amatori, Franco, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History Around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
      • 2003
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee: A Call to Action

      By: Michael E. Porter
      The inner city of Milwaukee holds great promise, but is not advancing economically. The inner city has been hard hit by the loss of many of its largest employers as a result of relocation, acquisition and failure. According to the 2000 US Census data, thirty percent of... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Society; Poverty; Economy; Growth and Development; Wisconsin
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      Porter, Michael E. "Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee: A Call to Action." Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, September 2003. (Report.)
      • August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
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      I've Got Rhythm: Selling Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger, William Lagor, Christopher Perry and Scott St. Germain
      The head of sales and marketing in a large medical devices firm must decide how to assign his sales force. He compares selling in the pharma, specialty pharma, and device industries and analyzes the reasons for the differences. View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Strategy; Industry Structures; Sales; Salesforce Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      Herzlinger, Regina E., William Lagor, Christopher Perry, and Scott St. Germain. "I've Got Rhythm: Selling Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices." Harvard Business School Case 304-012, August 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
      • 2003
      • Working Paper

      Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
      This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-012, August 2003.
      • 2003
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      Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership for Software Platforms: Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cucumbers

      By: Alan MacCormack
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Cost; Ownership
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      MacCormack, Alan. "Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership for Software Platforms: Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cucumbers." AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Related Publication, April 2003.
      • February 2003
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      Which Ties Matter When? The Contingent Effects of Interorganizational Partnerships on IPO Success

      By: Ranjay Gulati and M. Higgins
      This paper investigates the contingent value of interorganizational relationships at the time of a young firm's initial public offering (IPO). We compare the signaling value to young firms of having ties with two types of interorganizational partnerships: endorsement... View Details
      Keywords: Interorganizatonal Relationships; Networks; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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      Gulati, Ranjay, and M. Higgins. "Which Ties Matter When? The Contingent Effects of Interorganizational Partnerships on IPO Success." Strategic Management Journal 24, no. 2 (February 2003): 127–144.
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