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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
(Baldini & Castoldi) Forchielli offers sardonic advice to Italians, as seen in the book’s blurb in the Italian Amazon: If you are young, quick, just emigrate. Read a lot, especially the foreign press. If you do not know English, at least...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Vallée Abstract—Using a large administrative panel of Swedish households, we document the fast and broad adoption of retail structured products, an innovative class of contracts offering non-linear exposures to equity markets. Households View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Because global brands begin to create access to global income. And three, because they work with Andela and our model is distributed, they live and work in their local countries. And so whatever they're earning is being spent locally. The time they spend View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
addition, following China's entry into the WTO and the end of its five-year protection period, foreign competition, such as Best Buy, has entered the market and is bound to change the competitive landscape. Gome needs to decide what to...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis...
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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426.
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking...
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Tencent;
Tencent Holdings;
WeChat;
Social Networking;
Social Networks;
Gaming;
Gaming Industry;
Video Games;
Computer Games;
Mobile Gaming;
Portals;
Payments;
Mobile Payments;
O2O;
Online-to-offline;
E-commerce;
Messaging;
Subscription Model;
Freemium;
Mobile App Industry;
Smartphone;
PC;
Monetization Strategy;
Antitrust;
Streaming;
Cloud Computing;
Artificial Intelligence;
Big Data;
Alibaba;
Facebook;
JD.com;
Tesla;
Bundling;
Synergies;
Digital Strategy;
Imitation;
Licensing;
Agility;
Entry Barriers;
Online Platforms;
Advertising;
Digital Marketing;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Joint Ventures;
Restructuring;
Communication Technology;
Blogs;
Interactive Communication;
Interpersonal Communication;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Price;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Business History;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
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Product Positioning;
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Network Effects;
Market Entry and Exit;
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Industry Growth;
Monopoly;
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Distribution Channels;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Government Relations;
Groups and Teams;
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Strategy;
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Expansion;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration;
Information Technology;
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Applications and Software;
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Value Creation;
Emerging Markets;
Product Development;
Segmentation;
Business Units;
Communication;
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Communications Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
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Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
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Asia;
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how countries and businesses...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
collaboration, and international investment in industry. The United States and Germany are represented as partners in both the railroad and imperialist expansion. In such images of “manifest destiny” that clearly transcended national...
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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
aspects of risk including political risk, foreign exchange risk, market risk, and execution risk. Further, the discussion covers social aspects including whether the slum should be redeveloped at all, whether it should be redeveloped by...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
These regions experienced long eras of foreign domination, dealt with extensive state intervention, faced institutional inefficiencies, and experienced extended turbulence. This article suggests that this context drove different business...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
emergent online investing market, we construct a theory to explain how a firm becomes a cognitive referent in a nascent market and other firms' failure to do so. Successful firms conceptualize market creation as problem solving; they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
century, the main objective of most risk management policies—from limited liability to bankruptcy law to a fixed exchange rate—was to encourage trade and investment and thus to facilitate economic growth by making investors and traders...
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
carved out business opportunities despite formidable odds, including Madam C.J. Walker, a daughter of slaves who founded a million-dollar hair-care enterprise. Gail J. McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments in Boston, asked...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance developed stronger private equity markets in high volatility sectors over 1990-2004. These patterns are further evident in U.S. investments into Europe. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall...
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Martha Lagace