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  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

transaction would only prompt larger and more urgent strategic questions. Among them was the appropriate revenue model for Fluidity—whether to grow by providing its technical services to broker-dealers, by going into tokenized securities issuance, or by harnessing its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

and shake hands with the Pope John Paul II if he's not a rock-and-roll roll star." A leader's mission is not static; it evolves. Bono continuously sets new goals around several related global challenges. For example, he started advocating... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors during the global savings... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for over two centuries. But an... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2010
  • News

How to Build a Brand Like Corona (VIDEO)

Keywords: Professor Rohit Deshpandé ; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

non-fundamental risk. We define an asset to be fragile if it is susceptible to non-fundamental trading shocks. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated ownership or because its owners face correlated liquidity shocks, i.e., they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

These Are the Good Old Days

one assumes her Rolodex is as star-studded as a Hollywood blockbuster, but far more enduring in value. Globalization Looking over the last quarter-century, globalization is another powerful trend that has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1994
  • Article

Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Expansion; Chemicals; Metals and Minerals; Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Research and Development; Trade; Investment; Production; United Kingdom; United States; Scotland; Wales
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  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

the political elite, which integrated Argentina into the trading and financial networks of the first global economy. Provides an opportunity to understand why Argentina was such a successful economy at this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

Consistent with theories of optimal liquidation, investors largely traded in more liquid securities, such as government-guaranteed MBS, to meet their liquidity needs during the crisis. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

the market by setting the welfare-maximizing level of trade when the difference in the degree of asymmetric information between buyers and sellers is significant. However, if this difference is below a certain threshold, then even the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

theoretical prediction using a novel methodology based on the classic gravity equation in economics and measures of knowledge distance. Using a custom dataset of patents filed by all global subsidiaries of the top 25 patenting U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

accurate, they’re not managerially useful. Companies sell to customers, not to a trend, and priorities must be set. Make sure that key customers are aware of supply disruptions or other problems. Do not assume that, in a global pandemic,... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the Federal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

Thanks to technology and instant global communication, it has never been easier for companies to seek solutions to problems or find new ideas from sources outside their own corporate walls. But the art of managing these external... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology