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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
long-term contracts based on negotiated "benchmark prices" to contracts based on spot prices, usually forcing mining companies to pay for shipping. Second, for Brazil's charismatic president, Lula, a former union leader, Vale's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
a new one. We've suggested several ways to get around this dark side of framing a challenge as a threat: building a separate organization where it's possible to reframe it as an opportunity; funding the new business in stages as new... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
research with 1,200 executives at 500 companies concludes founder pay is on average $30,000 less than that of non-founder executives. (The pay discrepancy disappears as the business matures.) What's the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
strengthen consumer protections. The risk they run is that too stringent regulation could make it harder for borrowers in need to get money. In today's challenging economic climate and with high unemployment, "many Americans borrow... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
criticized its corporate governance. Laxey voted borrowed shares at the AGM. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208064 Evaluating M&A Deals—Equity Consideration Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
Business has long recognized the connection between an effective school system and a qualified workforce—by some estimates, the private sector invests $4 billion annually in efforts intended to improve public education. So why isn't that investment View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
the Internet and promised one-hour delivery of a wide range of products, including an entire evening's complement of food and videos, with no delivery fee and at a price roughly equal to what one would pay at retail. As View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
dynamic occurs because an organization's problem-solving routines and normal patterns of communication tend to constrain the space of designs within which it searches for new solutions. Such a link, if confirmed empirically, would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
that the open-end and regulatory features that a mutual fund poses to many successful strategies implemented in other contexts. In addition, it gives students the ability to calculate and interpret various horizons of correlations between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Here's a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," hasn't it implicitly guaranteed similar largesse for all such... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of entrepreneurial clusters, our understanding of what works and how it works is quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Original Article It is said that health care is the biggest threat to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and therefore, to some extent, the global economy. Americans pay much more for what they get (at... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
triggered PeopleSoft's poison pill, threatening this maneuver would have given Oracle bargaining power that it could have used to pay a lower price in its negotiated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
why high tech industries find themselves vulnerable to disruption today reflect thoughts of those who have studied the phenomenon. Philippe Gouamba said, "It is more important for Apple to out-do Samsung (and vice-versa) than it is... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions defending their pride. If View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government funds" At first glance, it seems counterintuitive that a massive continent with more than 50 independent nations,... View Details