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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Melissa HammerleHarvard Business School Note 311-014 This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the financial crisis of 2008. First, it will discuss European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
low-price-grocery leader. But this is a position you can only hold if your costs are lower than your competitors. Through its steady disinvestment in its stores, through its high-priced union contracts, through its ill-advised... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708490 Opening Dot EU (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-052 EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into new businesses, such as voice AI and self-driving vehicles, they also faced new and challenging questions about user privacy. The European View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
a right-to-work law was not a major part of their election platform because of the union opposition they thought it would generate. Quietly, however, Republicans did support a right-to-work law that was expected to attract more jobs to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
British astronaut, along with over 10,000 other hopefuls. As I remember, the winning candidate was supposed to train for a year in the USSR before going up in a Soyuz craft. I didn't get selected. But as it happened, the break-up of the Soviet View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
long-term contracts based on negotiated "benchmark prices" to contracts based on spot prices, usually forcing mining companies to pay for shipping. Second, for Brazil's charismatic president, Lula, a former union leader, Vale's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
statutes. Allianz, however, could conduct the cross-border merger as a European company according to the Statute of the European Community (Societas Europaea, or SE), which was recently passed by the European Union and adopted into German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
four months later, Sturzenegger was already facing the 45th day of a labor conflict sparked by union representatives on account of having fired six employees. The showdown raised several questions. First and foremost: Who owned Banco... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
case also explores the huge success of Kapoor’s films in the Soviet Union and elsewhere in the Communist world. During the postwar decades there were two global worlds. In the Western world, Hollywood provided a stream of cinematic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
countries, and that smaller countries have a differentially higher response to these benefits. Further, economic ties with the European Union are a particularly important source of network effects. The results, robust to numerous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel