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  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

Brands The case explores the collateralization of intellectual property in a loan agreement between a highly leveraged apparel company and a large U.S. bank. Leveraging intangibles in the credit market is a new practice that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

Cabot Lowell (1775-1817). Slater, a skilled British textile machinery engineer, helped to develop the country's first cotton spinning mill. Lowell, a member of a prominent New England mercantile family, established the first integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia and China,... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

religion—an increasing number of people are abandoning their faith. As commitment wanes, religious involvement may become detrimental to well-being, and individuals may be better off seeking new affiliations. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

attractive to new actors, thereby limiting formation of bridging ties to outside clusters; and (3) fragmentation of the small-world network, or the small-world system's inability to retain current clusters. The study uses data on... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

410-039 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410039-PDF-ENG Slanket: Responding to Snuggie's Market Entry Harvard Business School Case 510-034 How does a pioneer in a new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

book deals with two of the biggest problems in business: Why do sane, smart leaders often refuse to accept the facts that threaten their companies? And how do they find the courage to resist denial when facing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

employment and patenting strength of a cluster have a separate positive effect on the employment and patenting growth of the constituent industries. Finally, we find that new regional industries emerge where there is a strong cluster.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2397317   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-042 Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato Privately held Simplot has developed a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

the years. The effect of policies to deal with the ongoing global crisis and new policy choices remain to be seen. Understanding these phenomena—the determinants of capital flows, the effects of foreign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

market); developing a platform for DVR-based advertising; entering the audience research business; leveraging TiVo's intellectual property both through litigation and in the marketplace; and expanding into non-U.S. markets. In late 2007, a pivotal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

June 2012, Standard & Poor's Indices is finalizing a deal with the CME Group, the largest global exchange for futures and options and majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes, to combine their respective indices business into a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

expected to deal at arms-length with its "sister" businesses, while substantially reducing the size and functions of the corporate headquarters. But as the business units (BUs) and corporate headquarters adjusted to their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

and 2). While the sample of respondents who actually had dealings with the police was relatively small, the researchers did find that women in villages with female council heads were significantly happier with their law enforcement... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

a common non-linear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage of the vendor's accelerating commission... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

Icahn, another shareholder in Mylan, opposed the deal and sued Perry for alleged vote buying. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/mylan-laboratories-proposed-merger-with-king-pharmaceutical/an/214078-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne