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13 Dec 2011
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Power: Norway and International Cartels and Trusts, 1919-1939 Authors:Pal Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli Publication:Scandinavian Economic History Review 59, no. 3 (2011) Abstract The article examines the relationship between the Norwegian View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

state of the science in biotech. So, as a result, we have been pursuing an anatomy that focuses on breaking up the pieces of the puzzle into independent pieces (having lots of small specialized firms) when what matters is the way we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors. (photo: Richard Chase) At HBS,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

09 Jan 2006
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Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2023
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Interior Collab

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn

After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to... View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Employee Ownership; Trust; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

publicly stated goals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-outsmart-activist-investors/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
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2011) Abstract In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

operating in environments with weak state institutions; to examine the challenges of implementing voluntary frameworks, such as the GPs or VPs, and their potential as alternatives to state institutions; to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

calculated and is used as the vector of market capitalization weights. With these market weights (w) and the given covariance matrix, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) implied expected returns are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

statements about their commitment to long-term success. To understand the disconnect, we examine how S&P500 companies are actually allocating capital and show that firms are in fact plowing substantial amounts of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in term premia on long-term bonds... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2017
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Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

business leaders you talk with offer opinions about what should be done to reverse the current downturn? A: There’s a lot of interest in finding ways to develop internal consumer consumption. Another big topic of concern is access to View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

Article

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details

Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation or Environment; Labor and Management Relations; United States; Europe

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18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

advance research on teamwork in health care should consider using or adapting one of these instruments before creating a new one. Because instruments vary considerably in the behavioral processes and emergent states of teamwork that they... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

2000 and 2004, India's economy grew by 6.35%. Focuses on the states of Punjab and Kerala, which emphasized sharply different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace