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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
is in the container. Likewise, responsible manufacturers don't have to worry about competitors cheating by putting bogus ingredients into their products. So the agency's work for consumer protection also acts as a protection for ethical...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Capital landed on ex-ante rating system for any potential investment that produced a proprietary expected impact. With this tool in place, Root Capital had an integrated picture of impact and financial performance for a loan and across...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of Kansas City) The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
connections among elements of corporate brand identity and reputation. The new framework provides a structure for managing a corporate/organisational brand. It is a potential tool in the definition, alignment, and development of such...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many products are View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
adopting an experimental platform on which information was measured separately from solutions, we were able to reconcile past contradictions and clarify the effects of network clustering on problem-solving performance. The finding both provides a sharper View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-028.pdf Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan Abstract This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
PublicationsLocal Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell Publication:Journal of Economic Geography Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
out the waste, and focus on how to differentiate yourself from your competitors in meaningful ways. But the tools available to—and the challenges facing—companies are so much greater now than before, that managers have to rethink many of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine manufacture was clustered in Denmark...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large social welfare gains from using...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that are better at utilizing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Case 419-035 P-Will at DISCO From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
convert it into actionable initiatives. From founding the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), whose mission is to develop tools to teach women and girls how to harness the power of negotiation, to her...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
not to mention money-losing investments in silly ventures. Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash. Hint: the lessons don't include rushing to fund start-ups on the basis of back-of-the-envelope calculations. The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
strength in high precision coordinate measuring machines, a universal measuring tool that had been widely used since its introduction in the mid-1970s. The market faced a complex diversification of competition as metrology View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which social networks operate as tools of political influence through affective mechanisms. In Search of the Hybrid Ideal Authors:Julie...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them with tools for engaging in...
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Sean Silverthorne