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  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting scarcity of informed investors exacerbates market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to education. However, it needed to secure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

potential--but not yet existing--two-sided network. Once the first side is firmly established, it proves easier to attract users to the network's other side during stage two. With the "merchant to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a merchant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

expectations to businesspeople. He also published forecasts through syndicated newspaper columns and made public pronouncements on the future of the economy—including a notorious statement on the eve of the October 1929 stock-market crash... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

hosted the event. Are Wireless "hot Spots" Potentially Hot Markets? Hot spots are pockets of wireless access points that increasingly populate airports, coffee shops, corporate campuses, public transportation, and even homes.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

(forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

caution could easily become a consensus of autarky and insulation. Q: The article discusses at length the success of the EU in terms of monetary policy, but how do you feel about complaints by some EU nation politicians that adopting the euro has not been View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

serves the good of society, but if it’s used as a tool to deny the FBI its right to obtain access to critical information, it’s ridiculous.” Taking a more pragmatic tack, Mark observed “this phone was issued to the guy--and therefore... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

workout. Would Euro zone agencies and lawmakers, acting on behalf of lending banks, have to take drastic action to force Greece's government to impose new laws and collect the taxes? This would be a blow to democracy, but would it be a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

Publications Impacto Histórico de la Globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y Empresarios (The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and Entrepreneurs) Authors: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch, eds.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

tunneling (expropriation) but are, on average, exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

  Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

of employer-sponsored insurance—$4,500 in 2011. Absent the requirement that healthy people buy insurance, it is likely that the individual insurance market will consist primarily of sick people. They will have $ 4,500 to buy a policy with average expenses of up to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

  Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

explore the consequences of scientific publication-an instance of public disclosure-for a core set of activities within the firm. Specifically, we link publications to human capital management practices,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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