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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
he writes. In his working paper "Flexibility: The New Social Contract between Individuals and Firms?," Bradach studies independent contractors, companies that use their services, and staffing agencies that... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
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3.1 Student Accounts | MBA
semester), they may request a refund for the credit amount after the beginning of the semester. Sponsored students with third party contracts are... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Foluke Otudeko
When I was six I contracted childhood measles and went blind for a number of days. As a result, I learned to truly appreciate the gift of sight and even beyond that the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
HBR articles. Can you tell us about your career as a novelist? I hate to talk about it. Briefly, after I had my first son, I wrote a novel and sold the movie rights. I then got a contract to write two more... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to crowdsource competence by making data public and offering a reward for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
virus will give us the answers.” Will contracting the disease provide immunity? How long will immunity last? When will a successful vaccine be widely available? What will be an... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007
time in terms of bond market size, creditor protections, and court enforcement of bond contracts to assume that the adoption of a legal system can constrain future financial development. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
broadly than operational boundaries, is likely to be a superior strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
Japan—insurance or reinsurance contracts do not cover the losses. In other cases the language will be ruled that coverage is implied. Either way there are potential large... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
number of niche firms for long, sustained periods of time. In the software industry, a large number of niche players have endured for many years, constantly generating a variety of product innovations. Despite View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
decisions are endogenous, and 3) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing) once they have decided to affiliate. We show that search diversion remains a necessary strategic instrument for the intermediary even when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
treat the company. So it’s a mirror; it’s totally different than in the West. Any advice for American business schools? I really believe that a new social contract has to... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
http://people.hbs.edu/reccles/2011SU_Features_EcclesSaltzman.pdf Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum? Authors:Joanne... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Collusion in Markets with Syndication By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery, and Jordan M. Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
utility had made a public announcement it was accepting bids to implement a smart water network monitoring system, and Peleg wanted to discuss if and how aggressively TaKaDu should bid on the contract with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne