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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
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professional level. She broke off her engagement to another man and reconnected with Ryan after a five-year hiatus, then moved to Scranton in June 2016. Cognetti’s post on the school board is unpaid but takes up a significant amount of her time; her other View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
Change Masters and Confidence, speaks to this issue. Kanter: First of all, the main idea in Men and Women of the Corporation is about institutions and self-perpetuating cycles. It's about the interplay of structure and behavior. If you... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
integration, and corporate governance. This article surveys this recent research with the goal of highlighting the main themes it explores, the key results it establishes, and the leading open questions it raises. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
uninsured depositors in order to return the nation's largest banks to solvency. How had Cyprus's development model contributed to both the island's financial crisis as well as the structure of its ultimate assistance package? The case has four View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
multiple). Main focus is to assess this as an entrepreneurial venture. Students do not need to be familiar with REITs. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810102-PDF-ENG Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
system are settled. The main result is that these liquidity needs are larger when these firms are more interconnected through their debts, i.e., when they borrow from and lend to more firms. Two pecuniary externalities are discussed. One... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
technology and develop a framework for understanding how software-driven medical devices differ from traditional medical devices. We identify opportunities and challenges for regulators and innovators in three main areas: (1) software... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
present three main findings. First, consistent with theories of countersignaling, top schools are least likely to disclose their rankings, whereas mid-ranked schools are most likely to disclose. Second, schools that do poorly in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
evidence. NPEs on average behave as "patent trolls." Indeed, NPEs hold and frequently litigate patents that are likely to be at least partially invalidated; moreover, NPEs target cash irrespective of its relation to alleged infringement. Cash-targeting is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
interviews. Q: What are the main findings from the research reported in the book, and what do they tell us about economic development and globalization in developing countries in general? A: I think the book demonstrates both the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
sent P&G's main competitor in oral care, Colgate Palmolive Co., scrambling because several patents protected the strips, making it difficult for Colgate to copy the invention. But in September 2002, the tables turned. Colgate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice, along with suggestions for further reading. The main goal of any international strategy should be to manage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
In a perfect world, scientists share problems and work together on solutions for the good of society. In the real world, however, that's usually not the case. The main obstacles: competition for publication and intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
the main reasons for our enthusiasm about backing the business at this early stage. They have absolutely the right DNA to tackle some of the most difficult and intractable computer science problems around automatically understanding the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
to present a 3-principle framework we call REVISE. This framework classifies forces that affect dishonesty into three main categories and then redirects those forces to encourage moral behavior. The first principle, Reminding, emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
technologies (e.g., applications, servers, and databases); iii) reveals the main "flow of control" within an architecture (i.e., the set of inter-connected components); and iv) generates measures of architecture that can be used... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel