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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for creating and acquiring children is, Spar argues, disorganized, legally conflicted, and virtually unfettered. It includes people who sell their eggs; buy sperm from strangers; undergo fertilization procedures; pay surrogates to bear... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending associated with the redemption of such a coupon is focused on "marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf The Causes and Consequences of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
to sell insurance in the country. During the next five years China's non-life insurance industry grew from $8.3 billion in 2001 to $15.9 billion in 2005. Yet in 2007, domestic insurers continued to dominate market share and, Chubb had not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
percent of US patents were software related. Since 2015, that share exploded to 50 percent as software became widespread and legal changes allowed for broader intellectual property protection, the researchers found. “During that period of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog
what is legally allowed, these owners define the main parameters by which the company operates. We will explore this power through three main lenses: Ownership as an influence on company behavior. How does ownership guide how companies... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
able to analyze the dataset to form views of how the security prices are likely to evolve relative to each other. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208118 Finding Information for Industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
wouldn’t consumers simply download movies — legally or illegally? Uneasy parallels have been drawn between the movie industry and the music industry, which continues to fight against illegal downloading. One... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Corporate Governance." ProfessorAlexander Dyck Dyck: "What I think is most interesting are… countries that have weak legal protections that nonetheless pursue share-issue privatizations. And the question is: Is that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
can start a multi-billion dollar industry before turning thirty. While cyberspace is new and sparkling with opportunity, it is not that new and that much sparklier than other technologies were on the eve of their creation. —Debora L. Spar... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
Initiative, raised $400,000 for The Bail Project, the Black AIDS Institute, the Equal Justice Initiative, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Project. ARF’s current Homecoming Initiative is raising... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Recovery (A) Deishin Lee, Baris Ata, and Mustafa H. TongarlakHarvard Business School Case 611-033 This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
strong finance and legal teams" as sources of risk aversion. But other respondents concluded that it doesn't have to happen, and proposed antidotes to the phenomenon, starting with David Levine's "list" of "a strong... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs and benefits of those... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
local Indian tribes, General Custer’s expedition to the Black Hills, and the last legal hanging in Meade County. (You can still get a prescription filled, too.) Today, Hustead, 53, one of seven children, oversees Wall Drug with his... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
legal sales of music. While this question is receiving considerable attention in academia, industry and in Congress, we are the first to study the phenomenon employing data on actual downloads of music... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
researchers gave a large group of executives financial and industry information about one company negotiating to acquire another. The executive subjects were randomly assigned to the negotiating roles of buyer or seller; the information... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
for each discrete service. Many other industries have solved the problem of how to issue a single bill for customized services; among them aerospace, construction, auto repair, and consulting. A competitive health care View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
accounts. But, by the early twentieth century a large industry had emerged that provided basic financial services to the public. In the 1930s the modern regulatory framework for this industry was created. In... View Details