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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
department a number of tokens it can "spend" annually on engineering work to build custom features—boosting the odds of signing contracts with new customers. In December 2010, a request for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Harvard Business School, Edelman recently wrote about Vectus, Ltd., a Sweden-based PRT firm, on his Web site; a case study is available from Harvard Business Press. Other firms in the PRT business landscape include Advanced Transport... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
not part of a passenger’s contract with United. (In a request for rulemaking, I recently asked the Department of Transportation to rule this and similar policies invalid and unenforceable.) But even if View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and relationships that comprise the U.S. industry? To complete... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
individual contracts with each town or city they serve, after bidding against other cable providers for the chance to do so. They then, in turn, receive fees from broadcasters to be included in their limited... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
long-term contracts based on negotiated "benchmark prices" to contracts based on spot prices, usually forcing mining companies to pay for shipping. Second, for Brazil's charismatic president, Lula,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
prospective buyers may be necessary to facilitate the sale. Such disclosures can, of course, be protected in principle through a confidentiality contract which gives the seller... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
predict that the board will design incentive contracts that filter out common shocks in performance to motivate costly effort from the CEO—a process that entails View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
In the first wave of globalization, MNEs sought access to resources, and governments frequently gave them exclusive contracts and favorable deals in order to build businesses. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-002 In March 2009, the government of Iraq decided to hold its first oil field auctions. The auctions were for service contracts on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of the regular group purchasing scheme, KKH and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
10-year, reported $100 million contract in 2018, the longest coaching contract in NFL history. While Oakland took a risk by hiring a coach that had been away from coaching for... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. However, very little is known about View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
only 14% in the last quarter of 2008 but contracted nearly as much as new lending for restructuring (LBOs, M&A, share repurchases) relative to the peak of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
rich collection of feasible governance structures. Our model focuses on two issues emphasized by practitioners: spillover effects (as opposed to hold-ups motivated by specific investments) and contracting problems ex post (as opposed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace