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  • 06 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise in a family already made brittle in various ways by the View Details
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

serves as a vehicle to explore the devastating economic and political impact of the Great Depression on the countries of the South, such as Chile, which had specialized in primary commodities, and on mining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy. This note considers the ingredients of Apple's success and its quest to develop, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, insanely great products. Focuses on 1) design thinking,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Building organizational confidence, and turning losing streaks into winning streaks, is the work of leaders. Great leaders build winning streaks, prevent losing streaks, and in turnaround situations, they focus on changing the momentum.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness', 1890–1938 By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

firm's capabilities to the client's needs. GEPs must be able to simultaneously manage a larger number of tasks, often under great time pressure. This case describes how a very effective GEP-Miles Everson, who was named one of the top 25... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

non-founders—is a great arena in which to examine it. If founders are typical agents, their compensation should not differ from that of non-founder agents, once we have controlled for a wide variety of potential differences between them... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209144 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-045 In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the Great... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Sheila Bair, and the Chief Executive Officers of nine of the largest banks in the United States. This distinguished group had been brought together by the most serious financial crisis since the Great View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren Abstract We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from dirt roads to superhighways,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When the Great View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

learning can induce a great deal of wage inequality. An equilibrium model is developed in which firms can choose either to advertise their job openings prominently or not. Prominent ads are assumed to have more influence on more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

outlays, as they depress the premium of the second-lowest-price silver plan, to which subsidy amounts are linked. Holding all else constant, we estimate that federal subsidies would have been 10.8% higher in 2014 had Marketplaces required... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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