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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system...
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by Ann Cullen
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
associations, impressions and reputations that people have of a certain place can have a big impact in a number of areas—from tourism, to exports, to drawing talent, to securing foreign investment, to public diplomacy, and to political...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
Astroscale, which had secured private funding years earlier, was nearing the first demonstration of the technology. This case is intended to help students understand how a tragedy of the commons develops in a specific, nearly textbook...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting," the intentional registration of misspellings of popular web site addresses. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
based on company profits, a crisis in performance automatically reduces their cost structure and allows them to avoid layoffs. The global economic crisis of 2008, the worst since the Great Depression, may make such policies more attractive to employees as job View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
commitments for repayment. Research suggests that a common commitment mechanism is to borrow U.S. securities laws, which involves listing the emerging economy firm's shares on a U.S. exchange. This paper uses a quasi-natural experiment...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a vendor selling...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
century when various entrepreneurs competed for dominance. During this time, success was dependent on securing U.S. airmail contracts as well as on reliable and safe aircraft. Access to government officials, sources of capital, and...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
resulted from focusing on securing the preferences of active voters. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50427 Commuting with a Plan: How Goal-Directed Prospection Can Offset the Strain of Commuting By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
terrible example for everyone to follow. The argument of domestic security simply does not hold in the data. No terrorists on US soil came from the country on the ban list. And there are so many measures that are proven to significantly...
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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée Abstract—This paper investigates the rationale for issuing complex securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
to the next level of growth. The acquisition would allow the Group to diversify across verticals, customers, and geographies, market a wide range of services to Satyam's strong customer base, and capitalize on common support systems in order to reduce operating costs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
that shows how CSR can make it easier for firms to secure financing for new projects. Research was conducted by George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng of Harvard Business School and Ioannis Ioannou of the London Business School. Key concepts...
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by Staff
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
pension funds was infrastructure debt securities. Until recently, few Nigerian infrastructure securities had strong enough credit ratings to be investable by cautious pension funds. Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit)...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt announced their "grave concerns" about it in an unusual joint press release that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
several challenges, including securing funding for the organization. NatuRi had captured the attention of at least four potential investors willing to offer an investment. Its managers were challenged to weigh their options and to...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/09/wber.lhs031.short?rss=1 Do Analysts Add Value When They Most Can? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs Authors:Feldman, Emilie R., Stuart C. Gilson, and Belén Villalonga Publication:Strategic Management Journal...
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Sean Silverthorne