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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

online will likely worry about receiving gifts on time. Training staff to enforce rapidly changing health guidelines and diffuse tension with customers who don’t comply mask-wearing regulations will also be critical to keeping the peace... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

challenging, and what leaders can do to help. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets by Lakshmi Iyer (World Scientific) This series of HBS case studies on emerging markets answers to the following questions: When will... View Details
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  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

China) in multilateral negotiations, notably in the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. Yet Brazil's actions to enforce a compulsory license of a patented therapy for HIV/AIDS and its victory in a longstanding WTO dispute with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

counterparties located in the same city. Further analyses suggest that location-specific goods such as opera tickets, cultural factors, and the possibility of direct contract enforcement in case of breach may be the main reasons behind... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

jurisdiction of creditors and debtors. Local dollar-denominated credits and liabilities were converted on a 1:1.40 ratio, while obligations held with foreign entities continued to be enforceable at the new rate of 1:3. The crisis led to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

by leading multifaceted lives themselves. They can reward employees for the quality and results of their work rather than the time put into it. And they can enforce reasonable work hours, require vacations, and take other steps to protect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-114 Management Control Systems Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

metrics, relying on independent auditors, and attempting to enforce compliance. Is this a plausible path forward? This note summarizes work in history, political science, and economics—drawing particularly on the work of Eleanor Ostrom—to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions. For clear violations of applicable rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

number of distinct predictions about the cost of capital for alternatives relative to traditional mean-variance analysis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-013.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

multi-tasking problems. Contracts often specify provisions that are unobservable or difficult to verify, suggesting a role for expected litigation as an enforcement tool in contract design. Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

management. After controlling for the materiality of the restatement, firms from weak rule of law countries are more likely to opt for less visible restatement disclosure methods. We interpret these findings as home country enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

"preliminary" agreement can have binding effect. This note explores the circumstances under which MOUs may give rise to binding and enforceable agreements. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312018-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

taught that you’ve got to be better. You’ve got to work twice as hard and be twice as good to get half as far." ShotSpotter has developed technology to help law enforcement detect and locate gunfire, and Clark believes that the officers... View Details
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The majority of economic growth is now occurring in countries that are not historically wealthy high-income democracies, and where many of the textbook assumptions regarding how markets function—such as the enforcement of contracts,... View Details