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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Administration Harvard Business Review Press Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
free trade zones began the transformation of China’s state-run economy. In the 1990s, you saw a significant easing of restrictions on startups—first in the restaurant industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
features a seller with private information and costly buyer participation. The empirical context of the study is the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theory, I find that inexperienced writers are excluded from selling early-stage ideas, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of consumer products, so Mittal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
mutual funds also impact the propensity toward other contractual features that influence when and how creditors have control. However, these factors are less relevant in explaining the strength of restrictions on indebtedness, liens,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
compulsory invention secrecy was effective at keeping affected technology out of the public domain, but it appears to have reduced and delayed follow-on invention, reduced entry into patenting, and restricted commercialization. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
internationalism. We conducted two studies to test whether social class is related positively to internationalism (the building social class hypothesis) or negatively to internationalism (the restricting social class hypothesis). In Study... View Details
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
administrators, and limited disclosure of relevant medical information, on a need-to-know basis, such as compliance with treatment and restrictions on certain activities. The decision to require such an agreement is arrived at in... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
“You can sell it. You can patent it. You can do your business. We don’t restrict it at all. That is unique,” says Nolan. (Does this create competition? “If your clock speed is faster you’re going to build before they build,” says Rogers.)... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decentralized banks are also more responsive to their own competitive environment. They are more likely to expand credit when faced with competition but also cherry pick customers and restrict credit when they have market power. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
through restrictions on the number of apartments a resident is allowed to purchase and aggressive promotion of affordable housing on the low-end of the market. Zhang Xin wonders what opportunities and threats such market conditions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
restricting hair color, tattoos—I got rid of all of that. I wanted people to feel comfortable showing up and being themselves, students and staff. This work is so hard and it requires so much intentionality, and I’m very grateful for all... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
that pay. The increasing use of restricted stock is a sea change. It's really dramatic, and it has been happening since 2005 or so when the accounting rules on expensing options changed. Some people predicted that expensing stock options... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive risk and how best to mitigate it. This case describes the government restrictions on executive pay for TARP recipients and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
learned of another alleged relationship between Easterbrook and an employee. This time, its investigation turned up three additional workplace relationships and sexually explicit photos and videos. Plus, the board discovered that Easterbrook had granted View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
in Confluent. Initially very excited about the deal, Warden becomes concerned about Confluent's valuation and its ability to succeed as a business when he learns about restrictions placed upon Confluent by the licensing agreement. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
inward FDI. After 1945 many developing governments pursued policies which restricted foreign-owned firms. India and Turkey were among the countries with particularly difficult policy environments. This paper explores why Unilever, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
strengthened by the rise of craft guilds in the sixteenth century. Legal scholars claim it was not until the Industrial Revolution that courts began to routinely enforce restrictions on employee mobility, though they generally held that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace