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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
stories, but humans have always been experientially driven. What’s new right now is the technology and the scalability that it offers.” Gnosis—MoFE’s latest Brooklyn, NY–based show—is a high-tech exploration of the timeless question, Who...
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- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
We find that location fundamentals including market access and comparative advantage and agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a particularly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals' offshore agglomeration. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1524857 Do Prices Determine Vertical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products,...
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- 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Sandra J., and Matthew Preble Abstract—The article discusses an intern for the technology security company Zantech addressing her concerns about her boss in Seoul, South Korea, regarding an inappropriate suggestion on misrepresenting her...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could diffuse in society. Design-driven innovation, that plays such a crucial role in the innovation strategy of design-intensive...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
with in the future. "The next time around, that entity is part of their working set," Stuart says. Career Networks Taken more broadly, spanning ties weave together the fabric of the network and contribute to the diffusion of...
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- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
number of additional analyses we conducted confirm that our findings are most likely driven by changes in individuals’ opportunity costs of starting new ventures as a result of worsening labor market conditions and not by changes in skills, or View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. Industry wisdom, company relationships, and technological expertise all matter in our new knowledge-based enterprises.—...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and refrigeration...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
that’s actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and...
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by Staff;
Auto;
Aerospace;
Chemical;
Consumer Products;
Electronics;
Energy;
Industrial Products;
Manufacturing;
Shipping;
Transportation
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
cultural psyche. The war served further to diffuse hygienic habits, as the need to keep millions of soldiers free of disease resulted in soap, razors, and other toiletries becoming required elements of soldiers’ equipment. Soap companies...
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- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Collaboration By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephen Turban Abstract— : Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
of the intriguing findings from our analysis is that electronic and face-to-face interactions are near perfect complements. In other words, people talk to the very same people they e-mail. As electronic collaboration technologies further...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
addresses this shortfall as part of a larger research agenda investigating how companies manage to succeed in this particular arena. Verganti coauthored the article with Claudio Dell'Era, his colleague at Italy's Politecnico di Milano. "Researchers have been...
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