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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
crisis gives a new life and legitimacy to the European vision. This essay explores how this European vision, often referred to as 'managed globalization,' has been conceived and implemented and how the rules that Europe fashioned in trade... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
they might order homers or request some for their friends. Also, on the organizational level, effectiveness might be improved. The company might get more from its employees when it gives them more: In this case, for instance, allowing employees to conduct homer work in... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Shibayama founded AG Holdings, a consultancy with a special focus on art and culture programs. Art was the last thing on Shibayama’s mind 35 years ago, when he started working at Mitsubishi Corp., one of Japan’s giant trading companies,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
large-store formats, multiple-store formats and extensive channel blurring in the U.S. retail industry. Our analysis is based on aggregate segment-level data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), the Monthly Retail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Forces analysis in a work setting, without the benefit of a prepackaged case. Exhibits provide detailed information on top resources for industry analysis, instructions for accessing prominent databases, notes on using the Internet and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
he added, Africa really needs the investment of its own people in order to attract healthy global investment. Utomi said countries cooperating on a regional basis would also be a step forward for Africa. Kibuka noted that other countries'... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
the first world war, German assets in India were expropriated under the Trading with the Enemy Act 1914. The British Empire operated internment camps in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India. The largest Indian camp was located at... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
likely a company is not going to get a design perfect on the first try," notes Spear. "It needs to have the people within its system capable of making improvements." Spear has now helped apply Toyota's principles to much of Alcoa's... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Cadre Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
shortages of cadavers (Agthong and Wiwanitkit 2002; Assemblée Nationale du Québec 2004; U.K. Department of Health 2005). However, trying to address the question of a shortage of cadavers often means facing the taboo on trading human... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. "This book grounds the concept of a differentiated network more firmly in organization theory and tests its validity more rigorously by... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Back then, Argentina tried to fend off creditors by adopting a hard-line attitude about reducing its debt obligations. When it initiated a bond exchange offer in 2005 and told its creditors to "take it or leave it," the republic... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits the exchange of anything of value that rewards or generates business reimbursable by federal health care programs. While the law prohibits drugmakers from directly covering copays and other out-of-pocket... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
HBS, is a noted authority on leadership, strategy, organizations, and human resources. His new book is particularly relevant to leaders of nontraditional firms who may or may not be technology experts but who need to have the ability to... View Details