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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

granted a U.S. patent for a "flying-machine," which changed the industry irrevocably. While American manufacturers diverted resources from science and technology to patent wars and legal disputes, European aeronautics advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

search affiliated sellers (stores). There are three motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total consumer traffic for higher revenues per consumer visit, 2)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAbraham Lincoln and the Civil War Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115 Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's leadership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative management-labor relations, often seen as key to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s as well as instrument immigrants’ location... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls, including issuer fixed effects as well as liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

capture of accounting regulation by segments of the financial-services industry. Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/why-fair-value-is-the-rule/ar/1   Working PapersCarry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

needs. Odutola's keen, unwavering interest in improving the infrastructure of Nigeria allowed him to enjoy a successful career in business and politics, despite the vastly fluctuating political landscape of Nigeria. From British rule through civil View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207019 CMM versus Agile: Methodology Wars in Software Development Harvard Business School Case 607-084 A CIO decides whether to adopt the "Capability Maturity Model"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

the door, so to speak. There is not a huge amount in the book about political history, which is an integral part of business. World Wars I and II were enormously influential on the American economy, but they were not comprehensively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also restricted player compensation.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

& McKenzie, the largest law firm in the world by employees, with offices in 38 different countries. Facing an intensifying war for talent and associate retention concerns in some offices, Conroy has spearheaded the development of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

Cotton Manufacturing At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton textiles. In fact, Britain became so dominant in textile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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