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  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

technology would provide the country with greater agricultural production, a major source of exports, without the need to convert additional areas of the Cerrado or Amazon to farmland. However, producers have been slow to adopt it due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

example here. More business leaders in the health care sector recognize that industry actors that engage in egregious pricing of drugs bring all kinds of problems to the whole industry. Silverthorne: You note that companies by themselves... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

Reorganizations—Triangular Mergers Harvard Business School Note 207-009 Discusses the reasons and uses of triangular or three-party mergers to complete a business acquisition or tax-free corporate reorganization. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

the Xerox business plans had proposed building document-management systems for mainframe computers rather than for networked personal computers (which were rapidly replacing mainframes at many organizations). With the help of the XTV officials, Shao and Newton led an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

419-039 Note on Managing Workforce Reductions Each individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than departures, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

  Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

each splintered into contending factions, a successful stepping stone strategy requires converting enough "persuadable skeptics" on each side to forge a "winning coalition" on behalf of the next nuclear deal. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

off?" Comparing notes across sectors we identified two factors that were not a surprise to any of us—accelerating market demand and well managed federal support for fundamental research. But the third factor—the thing that appears to have... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

initial investments in the form of equity, WTI focused primarily on lending money to start-ups, charging them interest and receiving warrants that could later be converted to stock in the case of a liquidity event. Most initial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

Expertise Authors:Heidi K.Gardner and Lisa Kwan Abstract Why do some teams fail to convert members' knowledge into valued outcomes? We propose that members' differing perceptions of each other's levels of expertise is a critical factor.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810086-PDF-ENG Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Note 312-033 This note... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

improves how users visualize information, receive and follow instructions, and interact with products. AccuVein, for instance, uses AR technology that converts the heat signature of a patient’s veins into an image superimposed on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

at the Switch? Frank V. Cespedes and Diane BadameHarvard Business School Case 913-505 PV Technologies, Inc. is an industry-leading manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters used to convert the direct current output of solar panels into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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