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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
community. Chile is in better shape, but has also undergone traumatic ups and down and is now challenged to grow as its major trading partner, China, slows its growth. What went wrong? A new edited volume by Geoffrey Jones and Andrea... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past, 300-332. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming Abstract John Holt & Co is one of a group of unlikely survivors from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
revenues, and earnings plunged by 63%, resulting in ITG's first unprofitable quarter since 1988. Gasser was convinced that ITG's challenges were not simply a function of shrinking trading volumes; 2009's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309023 Note on Trade Secrets and Covenants Not to Compete: Comparison of Law in the United States and the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43707 Cases & Course MaterialsNatural Gas Abdelal, Rawi, and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 713-020 In an overview of natural gas as a fossil fuel and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
threat of increased service competition," says Campbell. Differences Across Markets Customers and companies trade off between price and service. "Every customer has his or her own level View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time there are no publicly traded comparable companies, as well as the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
are so interrelated. Q: What's happening in the Gulf? A: We have seen increasing liberalization of the Gulf economies, for instance, the lowering of barriers to trade for... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Abstract—When Istvan Hont died in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
stumbled into an even bigger market: precision tweezers for women's personal beauty care. It turned out there was a real need for a more sophisticated and specialized tweezers among the trade who served beauty-conscious women. Before... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
the World Trade Center, not a failure of intelligence. The U.S. had dealt with plane hijackings for decades and should have prevented these also.) (b) Utilize American military power sparingly. (c) Avoid... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
entity (PE) intellectual property (IP) litigation, nor of non-IP litigation against publicly traded firms. The empirical evidence suggests, however, that not all NPEs exhibit trolling behavior—the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino