Chicago School Of Law And Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2020
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Does Capitalism Need To Be Reimagined?

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

17 Oct 2013
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Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin

July 1991 (Revised December 1993)
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Grupo Industrial Alfa, S.A.--1982

The rapid depreciation of the peso in 1982 precipitated a crisis at Grupo Alfa, Mexico's largest private company. The company's peso cash flow was insufficient to service its large dollar-denominated debt. Students are asked to formulate a plan for restructuring Alfa's... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Restructuring; Negotiation Participants; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Mexico

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10 Sep 2001
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Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Business School and author of nine books, including Learning in Action. The details vary, but in the main, all organizational change involves three phases: an initial stage... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

insurance was purchased (it is tax-deductible there); the canton buys health insurance for the uninsured and bills them; and welshers are sued under laws that allow... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

24 Sep 2020
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Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Airport in two hours. “It wouldn’t go well,” he says. About the author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading The Entrepreneurs Who... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

04 May 2010
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reformulated in light of the new data, methodology, and findings presented in this study. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsReal Blue? Viagra View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Aug 2004
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Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

2008
Book

Mexico Since 1980

By: Stephen Haber, Herb Klein, Noel Maurer and Kevin Middlebrook

This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Law Enforcement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Mexico

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26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

Harvard Business School Supplement 207-025 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207025 PublicationsFrom Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

possibility of erasing some of these civil rights gains. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51647 Summer 2016 Journal of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
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Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

children to school and get them vaccinated. For whatever reason, the concentration of wealth is much lower in Brazil than in Chile. But these countries represent two View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

plants provides "a measure of informality and diversity " Reprinted with permission from Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business View Details

Keywords: Education

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

of applications, the more appealing the Microsoft system will be. Price discriminate. Give Windows and applications away to schools and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

14 Dec 2017
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Financial Incentives

My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006

Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER... View Details