Publications

April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza

This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil

February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Lehman Brothers

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen

In 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And... View Details

Keywords: History; Business History; Development Economics; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Banking; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

competition, but because they are are cheaper and easier to use. In The Innovative University, Christensen and Henry J. Eyring take the idea of disruptive innovation to the field of higher education, where new online institutions and... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

2017 reveals that customer compatibility affects financial performance. Branches with more divergent customers grow deposits more slowly than branches with less divergent customers. Institutions serving customer bases with more dispersed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A system of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

Publications November 2014 Asian Survey Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead of other Indian states in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward American multinational firms would... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

organizations focused on patients and consumers" to advance health care. Why is this important? A: Americans are remarkably—sometimes painfully—resistant to acknowledging that we have a health-care system that is national in scope. I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

and D. Hofmann Publication:European Business Review (May-June 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/grant_gino_hofmann_europeanbusinessreview_2011.pdf Winning in Emerging Markets: Spotting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

among many consumers than any political party, trade union, church, or mosque. Indeed, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz sought to make his coffee shops the "third place" in our lives, after home and work. Marketing is an View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

Research Summary

Business Leaders and Corporate Responsibility

By: Thomas R. Piper

Thomas R. Piper is trying to establish an appropriate sense of ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders. Earlier research provided compelling evidence that many future leaders seriously doubt that their interpersonal ethics can be brought into... View Details

March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details

Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho

Research Summary

Overview

Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

July–August 2008
Article

Interview with a Quality Leader: Regina E. Herzlinger on Consumer-Driven Healthcare

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. She received her bachelor's degree from MIT and her doctorate from the Harvard Business School The first woman to be tenured and... View Details

Keywords: Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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