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- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Foster, who has about 438,000 Twitter followers. While he didn't set out to benefit commercially when he joined Twitter, he said, "The more followers you get, the more opportunity for monetary gain." In fact, investors may soon... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
maintain majority control of their company. As attractive as the plan seems, they worry about the high cost of the loan and the risk that the offering might fail. In January 2005, with no time left to consider alternative financing plans,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20
difficult for ship owners to maximize their profitability and hence fewer steamships would have touched that port. It is possible then that telegraphic communication was at the heart of diminishing transport costs across the Atlantic.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
come. If the VC is vulnerable, use the opportunity to build trust rather than to take advantage. Focus on value-not just valuation. Nonfinancial considerations such as control are also important. Strive for understanding. Seemingly... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
easily show to their superiors to justify those decisions. The lower frequency of experimentation in their decision-making leaves employees in tightly monitored environments with few opportunities to learn. The researchers question... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
managerial skill, and significant alignment of interests. All these abound in the private sector. Thus major opportunities exist for businesses that can create and claim value by improving resource efficiency. The products and services... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
relative to their costs in evaluating a product. So the production method should not be relevant. Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Six studies show how the production method of versioning may be perceived as unfair and unethical and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
(Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative offering. This case provides students with an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time, the focal firm can drive the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
self-interests of others contributes to suboptimal outcomes. Yet sometimes, an excess of cynicism appears to lead us to overthink the actions of others and make negative attributions about their motivations without sufficient cause. In the process, we may miss View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
recreates itself in response to new technologies and consumer needs, this major player is considering focusing on its principal business of concert booking and related revenue or moving forward with its efforts to take advantage of new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
may have been instituted to offset the costs of undesirable customer behavior, like bouncing checks, turn out to be very profitable. As a result, companies have no incentive to help customers avoid them. Tactics like these generate bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace