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- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
inspected employers experienced a 9.4% decline in injury rates (95% confidence interval = -0.177 to -0.021) and a 26% reduction in injury cost (95% confidence interval = -0.513 to -0.083). We find no evidence that these improvements came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
derivatives and subprime mortgages; losses on these instruments contributed to the firm’s filing for bankruptcy in 2008. Drawing from the extensive Lehman Brothers Collection in Baker Library’s Special... View Details
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Justine Murray
research surrounding questions of meaning, passion, and the relationship between money, time and wellbeing in professional settings, and I found that there were only a handful... View Details
- 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31
and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 511-065 Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper derives two mechanisms through which Bayesian-rational individuals with differing priors will tend to be relatively overconfident about their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
engage in self-creation and the utility that they derive from such activities. We propose that creating products fulfills consumers' psychological need to signal competence to themselves View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
Approximately 40 percent of the company's revenues are derived from products introduced within the last two years. Natura achieved this result with an R&D staff of about 150 and a budget totaling only 3... View Details
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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA
also adhere to all HBS Academic Policies in conducting fieldwork for academic credit. Credits Independent Projects (IPs) may earn 1.5, 3, 4.5, or 6 credits, depending on the size and scope of the project. If... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
in the United States. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709037 Consumer Payment Systems—United States Harvard Business School Case 909-006 In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
era before unemployment soared, the Dow plummeted, and credit default swaps surfaced. In today's jargon, these owners are underwater—they owe more than the value of their... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
analysis. Then, you'll learn how to apply these tools in a variety of decision contexts, including securities analysis, credit analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, mergers and acquisitions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
provide. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants. Consumers benefit from providing information to the firm, as this increases the utility they derive from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
the costs of running the service, infrastructure, encoding, dealing with credit card companies, et cetera. Apple's profit comes from the sale of iPods and related products. It is no secret that a large... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
demonstrated how influence derives from instrumental agency as well as structural influence, but it has taken an unnecessarily restrictive view of politics and an overly materialist theory of power. Politics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Kristle Romero-Cortes Abstract—The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
novel, as well as individual cases). Four principles guided development of the series and its associated pedagogy: 1) emphasis on integrative, soft-skill, and business-oriented aspects of IS, independent of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace