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15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, as it is driven primarily by greater reporting rather than greater incidence of such crimes. In contrast, we find no increase in crimes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The Big Picture While View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder—CEO should exit or be fired.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

negotiations. Initially, legitimacy appeared to derive from an expanding membership and the lowering of tariffs in progressively more categories of goods and services. More recently, legitimacy comes from institutional deepening by means... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

experiment, children chose how to assign a good or bad prize to themselves and another participant by either unilaterally deciding who would get each prize or by using a fair procedure-flipping a coin in private. Older children were much... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

American business history in Spanish, as well as a good understanding of European business history that requires knowledge of multiple languages. "This loss of history has resulted in the spread of influential theories based on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

that mercantilism of invention should be the goal of the United States, as great good can come from ideas and innovation elsewhere that diffuse and spread. But the gains from innovation leadership are huge, ranging from the tech giants... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid "silos" they're organized around. In Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilient companies prosper both in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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