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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
the Act's provision. Thus, many opportunities open up for entrepreneurial pursuits. In this context, mom-and-pop shops have emerged alongside more traditional academic-housed programs to procure whole-body donations. As an illustration, a... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
of the debt has partially offset the Federal Reserve's attempts to reduce the supply of long-term bonds held by private investors through its policy of quantitative easing. We then examine the appropriate debt management policy for the consolidated government. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce those regulations. “Cleaning up View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to the company's future. I argue that there may be a geographic solution to this dilemma. In such a solution, a fast-growing emerging market plays a central role in orchestrating a complete strategy for corporate entrepreneurship. I also argue that it is time to go... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Harvard Business Review How Wikipedia Keeps Political Discourse from Turning Ugly By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51942 November 17, 2016 New England Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Fetter, a senior lecturer, is former CEO of Tenet Healthcare. Regulations that limit care might be loosened Richard Hamermesh: Cutting the red tape in diagnostic testing The crisis has revealed the weakest part of our medical system—the lack of rewards for diagnostics.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
models? A: I am writing a case on Farmacias Similares, a pharmacy chain in Mexico aimed at the low-income sector. Any medicine on its shelf is at least 30 percent cheaper than in traditional drugstores. It... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
driving internal reforms to make COFCO's management more competitive, innovative, and globally experienced. This case allows for a discussion of the Chinese marketplace and the evolving approach to business structures taken by the View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Emergency Medicine What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles By: Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John Abstract—Study... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum. "There's one Chinese company, for example, that has established... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
Chinese national, and deliver it to him in person. Recalls Klump, "I had achieved success, was enjoying rapid promotions, and worked well with my manager. When it came time for him to receive feedback, he encouraged direct... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
also lose something as well? What are the tradeoffs? A: In a sense, the story of consumer market regulation is only a recent chapter in the broader arc of modernization. As economic functions in society become differentiated and specialized, View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
developments suggest that doctors will eventually be able to treat patients more effectively with medicine tailored to their genetic makeup, including, in some cases, gene replacement therapies. "The drug market may become much more... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
traditional Afghani designs and using only locally grown cotton. Sherjan wants to grow Boumi so that it can be a substantial, if not major, funding source for Aid Afghanistan for Education. In order to grow Boumi, Sherjan must confront a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions. Using a unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed in the United States, we find that an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the potential of the framework to shed new light on traditional strategy questions, the article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Abstract—More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman