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- March 2006
- Case
The Whitesides Lab
By: H. Kent Bowen and Francesca Gino
A significant part of the long-term economic growth in developed economies depends on the translation of scientific research into new products and processes. Focuses on the front end of this value creation stream. The laboratory of George Whitesides has a 30-year...
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Keywords:
Research;
Performance Productivity;
Economic Growth;
Infrastructure;
Creativity;
Groups and Teams;
Value Creation;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Leadership;
Resource Allocation
Bowen, H. Kent, and Francesca Gino. "The Whitesides Lab." Harvard Business School Case 606-064, March 2006.
- March 2006
- Book Review
Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies
By: Rakesh Khurana
Khurana, Rakesh. "Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies." American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 5 (March 2006).
- March 2006
- Book Review
Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
By: Rakesh Khurana
Khurana, Rakesh. "Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005." American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 5 (March 2006): 1608–1611.
- Article
Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights
By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned...
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Keywords:
Patents;
Motivation and Incentives;
Entrepreneurship;
Competition;
Policy;
Innovation and Invention;
Rights;
Monopoly;
Business Startups
Anton, James J., Hillary Greene, and Dennis Yao. "Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights." Innovation Policy and the Economy 6 (2006): 1–26. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- Article
Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 25–46.
- 2006
- Article
The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'
By: G. Jones
This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted...
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Trade;
Ownership;
International Finance;
Economic Systems;
International Accounting;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Geographic Location;
Nationality;
Boundaries;
Global Strategy
Jones, G. "The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 51, no. 2 (2006): 149–166.
- November 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze and Minu Ipe
The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The public health infrastructure required rebuilding to respond to any type of large-scale health emergency. The Public Health...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Change Management;
Crisis Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Infrastructure;
Public Administration Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Applegate, Lynda M., Ajay Vinze, and Minu Ipe. "County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response." Harvard Business School Case 806-089, November 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Background Note
Understanding Economic Value Added
By: Mihir A. Desai, Fabrizio Ferri and Steve Treadwell
Explores the concept of economic value added (EVA) and its practical applications as a management control system for performance measurement and incentive compensation. Explains how EVA is measured and explores some of the adjustments to financial statements that are...
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Keywords:
Value
Desai, Mihir A., Fabrizio Ferri, and Steve Treadwell. "Understanding Economic Value Added." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-016, November 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- 5 Nov 2005 - 8 Nov 2005
- Conference Presentation
Exploring the Architecture of Complex Software Products
By: Alan MacCormack
- November 2005
- Case
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)
By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Laura Winig
KaBOOM!, a successful playground-building social enterprise funded through corporate partnerships, wants to develop a performance measurement system that will enable the organization to expand its impact substantially. The board of directors and management are trying...
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Keywords:
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Social Enterprise;
Performance Evaluation;
Management Systems;
Design;
Construction Industry
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-031, November 2005.
- October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Red Flag Software Co.
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe
In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with...
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Keywords:
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Applications and Software;
Business Startups;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Beijing;
United States
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Tarun Khanna, David Lane, and Elizabeth Raabe. "Red Flag Software Co." Harvard Business School Case 706-428, October 2005. (Revised February 2007.)
- 2005
- Dissertation
The Role of Immigrant Scientists and Entrepreneurs in International Technology Transfer
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "The Role of Immigrant Scientists and Entrepreneurs in International Technology Transfer." Diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2005.
- August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.
By: Paul M. Healy
Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager...
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Keywords:
History;
Financial Management;
Environmental Accounting;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Financial Reporting;
Performance;
Performance Evaluation;
Financial Statements;
Economic Growth;
Fair Value Accounting;
Information Industry;
Information Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Healy, Paul M. "DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp." Harvard Business School Case 106-015, August 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Financial Strategy;
Business History;
Leading Change;
Managerial Roles;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Bridget Gurtler. "Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 406-029, July 2005. (Revised August 2011.)
- July/September 2005
- Article
Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale
By: Rawi Abdelal
This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union...
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Abdelal, Rawi. "Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale." Critique internationale, no. 28 (July/September 2005): 87–115.
- June 2005
- Tutorial
Prematriculation Financial Accounting Tutorial/Module
By: David F. Hawkins, Paul M. Healy and Ratna G. Sarkar
The Financial Accounting course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting in a management context. The course describes the business activities for Global Grocer, a small retail franchise specializing in gourmet foods and specialty kitchen...
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- April 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
American Outsourcing
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Alexander Veytsman
Covers the phenomenon of outsourcing jobs from the United States. Reviews the evolution of Mexico's Maquiladoras, manufacturing special economic areas in China, and information technology and service-sourcing in India. Also reviews exports/imports, exchange rates,...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Employment;
Emerging Markets;
Wages;
Trade;
United States;
Mexico;
China;
India
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Alexander Veytsman. "American Outsourcing." Harvard Business School Case 705-037, April 2005. (Revised February 2007.)
- 1 Apr 2005 - 4 Apr 2005
- Conference Presentation
Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code
By: Alan MacCormack
- March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Coming out of the 2001 high-tech industry recession, this venture capital start-up has to come up with a marketing plan to break even and grow. Its innovative e-commerce software provides unique customer relationship management solutions, but it has to convince...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Customer Relationship Management;
Financial Crisis;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Software;
Information Technology Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce." Harvard Business School Case 505-016, March 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- March 2005 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In 1991, Chile adopted a framework of capital controls focused on reducing the massive flows of foreign investment coming into the country as international interest rates remained low. Capital inflows threatened the Central Bank's ability to manage the exchange rate...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
Governance Controls;
Business and Government Relations;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-031, March 2005. (Revised July 2007.)