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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
creativity and innovation in the world: open innovation, user innovation, and citizen innovation. Research into this phenomenon could do much to advance the study and practice of creativity. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
latest manifestation of a lecture given 68 years ago by Ronald Coase, now professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. Prof. Coase set forth a theory designed to help set limits on organizational boundaries. He proposed...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
sales growing from 11 million in 1995 to 185 million in 2011. And it offers important insights on supply chain management, innovation, and risk-taking. But it also provides lessons to anyone selling a commodity—after all is said and done Mutti sells tomatoes in a can....
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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
The carbon market has emerged in response to concerns about global climate change. This note characterizes the market in 2008, describing each segment and how it operates. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
Is the Discussion of Infotech Security versus Privacy a Waste of Time? Summing Up Discussion of this month’s question devolved into a debate about the usual issues: privacy versus security, Apple versus the FBI, citizens versus their...
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- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
than the European eccentric. Technology. Americans understand that innovation is the key to growth and wealth in a global economy where knowledge travels at lightspeed over the Internet. America's economic strength is based on innovation....
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by John Quelch
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio...
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by George Serafeim
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
measures, commenting that "the pain should be borne by greedy and equally irresponsible lenders." JTG, while agreeing, didn't quite see it that way, suggesting that citizens as well as lenders share responsibility. In his words:...
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by Jim Heskett
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
rights (IPR) and technology transfer? Fritz Foley: Before going to graduate school, I spent a year living in Sri Lanka. I was affiliated with the Institute of Policy Studies, an economic think tank, where I conducted research on...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the knowledge that they are good...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Abstract—Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with,...
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- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Southeast Asia and study the opportunities and challenges presented by the changing global market dynamics. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/212026-PDF-ENG Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Paul W. Marshall, Thomas R....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Cars negated the ability to interact with people on the streets. As it turned out, cops did a better job fighting crime when they sought input from the public. That had happened organically when they walked their beats. And by sharing their knowledge of the...
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- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by the 2008 View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
has declined since the early 1980s, driving down term premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-088.pdf Global Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
business leaders from virtually every industry are scrambling to make sense of what has happened in the past year and of what this means for their respective paths ahead. Almost every individual and organization, from the poorest View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
that make sense to all parties—because frankly until it makes sense to China, it's not going to happen." What do you think? Original Article A dozen years after the end of apartheid in South Africa, U.S.-based firms are confronting a...
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