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  • July 2022
  • Article

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy

By: Kyle Myers and Lauren Lanahan
We quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to state-specific matching policies, and we develop a new approach to measuring both geographic and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Energy; R&D; Grants; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Patents; Performance; United States
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Myers, Kyle, and Lauren Lanahan. "Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy." American Economic Review 112, no. 7 (July 2022): 2393–2423.
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Linda Price, University of Oregon

  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic enrollment with an employer match. This raises a question about how effective... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Compensation and Benefits
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment." In Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, 311–327. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
  • June 2002
  • Background Note

Note on the Equivalency of Methods for Discounting Cash Flows

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Uses a numerical example to demonstrate that when you discount the cash flows to capital from a project at the weighted average cost of capital, you get same net present value result as you obtain when discounting the cash flows to equity at the cost of equity. Also... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Equity; Valuation
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Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Note on the Equivalency of Methods for Discounting Cash Flows." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-128, June 2002.
  • 17 Mar 2017
  • News

Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA

(via Poets & Quants) (via Poets & Quants) Many b-school students covet a career like the one Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) has had. He became a managing director at Lehman Brothers when he was 31. Seven years later, he cofounded Blackstone,... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • March 2024
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How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics

By: Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling
Firms often oppose costly public policy reforms—but under what conditions may they come to support such reforms? Previous scholarship has taken a predominantly static approach to the analysis of business positions. Here, we advance a dynamic theory of change in... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Environmental Regulation; Business and Government Relations
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Vormedal, Irja, and Jonas Meckling. "How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics." Policy Sciences 57, no. 1 (March 2024): 101–124.
  • 04 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung & Lingling Zhang
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

By: Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
In innovative industries, private-sector companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries.... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Information Publishing; Innovation and Invention; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks; Boundaries; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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Liu, Christopher C., and Toby E. Stuart. "Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-012, August 2010.

    What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

    Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections... View Details
    • 2010
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    Hiring for Strength, Hiring for Weakness: Evidence of Internal Strategic Fit from the NFL

    By: Andrew Hill
    Firms may hire senior managers to shore up a weakness or to build on a strength. Using evidence on the hiring of NFL head coaches, this paper finds that teams that hire for strength outperform teams that hire for weakness. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Performance; Sports; Sports Industry
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    Hill, Andrew. "Hiring for Strength, Hiring for Weakness: Evidence of Internal Strategic Fit from the NFL." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2010).
    • 18 Jul 2019
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

    their competition. “After 50 customers have signed on,” Lal says, “the 51st customer will ask, how can I make this work for me too?” As for IoT’s place on Gartner’s hype cycle, the firm says look for View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
    • 24 Apr 2014
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    Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder

    development firm that matches qualified professionals—women and men—who want flexible schedules with businesses in need of high-caliber services. “It doesn't make a lot of... View Details
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    Ensembles of Overfit and Overconfident Forecasts

    By: Y. Grushka-Cockayne, V.R.R. Jose and K. C. Lichtendahl
    Firms today average forecasts collected from multiple experts and models. Because of cognitive biases, strategic incentives, or the structure of machine-learning algorithms, these forecasts are often overfit to sample data and are overconfident. Little is known about... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Analysis; Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Data and Data Sets
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    Grushka-Cockayne, Y., V.R.R. Jose, and K. C. Lichtendahl. "Ensembles of Overfit and Overconfident Forecasts." Management Science 63, no. 4 (April 2017): 1110–1130.
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    Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness

    By: Tami Kim, Kate Barasz and Leslie K. John
    Given the increasingly specific ways marketers can target ads, many consumers and regulators are demanding ad transparency: disclosure of how consumers’ personal information was used to generate ads. We investigate how and why ad transparency impacts ad effectiveness.... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Customization and Personalization; Information; Trust; Performance Effectiveness
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    Kim, Tami, Kate Barasz, and Leslie K. John. "Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness." Journal of Consumer Research 45, no. 5 (February 2019): 906–932.
    • November 2014
    • Case

    Ardian—The Sale of Diana

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Michael Roberts
    The case focuses on a European private equity firm—Ardian—and the process it uses to sell one of its portfolio companies, and the decisions around that sale. Key issues include the choice of an auction or acceptance of a pre-emptive bid, and the role of the portfolio... View Details
    Keywords: Spin-out; Exit; Sale; Private Equity; France
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    Gompers, Paul A., and Michael Roberts. "Ardian—The Sale of Diana." Harvard Business School Case 215-033, November 2014.
    • January–February 2017
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    The Truth about Blockchain

    By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
    Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven’t kept up with the world’s digital transformation. They’re like rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem.... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Information Management; Information Technology Industry
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    Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Truth about Blockchain." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January–February 2017): 118–127.
    • 1976
    • Chapter

    More or Less Poverty? The Economic Effects of the MNE at Home and in the LDC's

    By: L. T. Wells Jr.
    Keywords: Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Economies and Regions
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    Wells, L. T., Jr. "More or Less Poverty? The Economic Effects of the MNE at Home and in the LDC's." In The Case for the Multinational Corporation: Six Scholarly Views, edited by Carl H. Madden. New York: Praeger, 1976.
    • 07 Mar 2008
    • News

    Art of retaining professionals

    • June 2007
    • Article

    What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

    By: Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu
    Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections are... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Patents; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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    Lerner, Josh, and Feng Zhu. "What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland." International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, no. 3 (June 2007): 511–529. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11168.)
    • 2022
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    Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

    By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
    Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
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