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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
pre-production stage. This summer, Elkins will be focusing on her latest research project, which will become her next book. It’s a deep dive into the recent history of violence in several former British colonies; she has set up research sites in 14 View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
high impact entrepreneurship movement as a tool for economic development in countries around the world. In 2010, Jaime was named an Endeavor Entrepreneur. This case can accompany HBS Case No. 817-073, “MIA: Profit at the Base of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to weigh carefully are moving production from the original View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
intelligence, and marketing. It doesn't take much investment, just a lot of creativity, smart data analysis, and agility. It has now emerged as the new word for growth used by start-ups and entrepreneurs in India and across the world.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
significant heterogeneity across countries and drug classes in all of these outcomes. While we observe that effective buyer institutions (in particular, committed tenders) are associated with increased biosimilar entry and penetration,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
countries. The book draws on literatures and archives that have previously only been available in Spanish, while the concluding chapter makes use of Harvard Business School's new project known as “Creating Emerging Markets,” which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
The carbon market has emerged in response to concerns about global climate change. This note characterizes the market in 2008, describing each segment and how it operates. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
pre-COVID financial markets were unstable and trade wars were intensifying. Public health in developing countries was improving thanks primarily to the work of NGOs. But in the US, men between 30 and 50 were dying fast enough to reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
eventually drew the interest of all of Switzerland and neighboring countries to Holderbank, which suddenly became famous for more than cement and concrete. Small Victories: One Couple’s Surprising Adventures Building an Unrivaled... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
firm to master all these skills, let alone house them under one roof. Second, a pool of low-cost yet highly skilled labor has emerged in developing countries, creating incentives to substitute these for higher-cost equivalents. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
had spent a lot of it on a motorbike, selling pots and pans. Haryopratomo: It wasn't about the glamour of being in a startup because it wasn't glamorous to be in a startup at the time. Morrell: Very few people in his home country... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
reach and richness jointly determine the potential value of the network, while receptivity is crucial in realizing that potential. The Dynamics of Social Structure: The Emergence and Decline of Small Worlds Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Maxim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
analysis of the percentage of the GDP in the shadow economy found this country to have the lowest percentage. Fiscal conservatives have plenty of reasons to deplore other aspects of the health care reform legislation. By expanding... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
arguably within reason when balanced against the value created in a successful reorganization. Chapter 11 isn't perfect. Just as not every hospital patient is cured or every prison inmate rehabilitated, not every sick company that enters Chapter 11 View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well." This targeted approach, Moss believes, helped ensure both stability and innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne