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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
transfer pricing, this present study pointed to acute problems of control and managing U.S. affiliates as an important factor. Q: What are the key themes you have discovered among foreign multinational companies in the United States? What... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
function that made it clear the CEO could carry the new firm forward. An affiliation with a previous employer, which suggested skills and connections that could benefit the young firm. Other people on the core management team—the chief... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
medical center. You don't have to be from Boston, Los Angeles, or Houston. You don't need to be affiliated with Harvard. A winning idea could be from anywhere." Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing medical diagnoses; a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
Workplaces are divided by political party Using voter registration data and information from business research firm L2, one study revealed “substantial partisan segregation” at the highest levels of executives at S&P 1500 firms, with 66 percent of corporate leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
to be more active and independent.” A social computing design Yiling Chen, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at SEAS, talked about social computing, where human creativity is used to accomplish computational tasks. Chen, a faculty View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for Brain Sciences, who studies the neural and psychological factors that underlie consumer decision-making. “The more similar the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
label Prada, and jeweler Bulgari. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/how-brand-tourists-can-grow-sales/ar/1 Forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) Risk, Information, and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing By: Edelman,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
foreign subsidiaries because of the tax costs associated with repatriating foreign income. Consistent with this hypothesis, firms that face higher repatriation tax burdens hold higher levels of cash, hold this cash abroad, and hold this cash in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
study with University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Namho Kang; EDHEC Business School Research Associate and Affiliated Professor Gideon Ozik; and Boston College Professor Ronnie Sadka, chairperson of the finance department, Carroll... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees settlers, whose number is determined by an annual cap set in advance. These refugees are distributed to 10 resettlement agencies, each of which runs a network of local affiliates that have their own... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
values were reflected in the zaibatsu and other enterprise groups, which paternalistically watched over their affiliated companies. Within the organization, such values were evident in the widespread norm of lifetime employment... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax jurisdictions use trade credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
virtually the same: on average Republicans kept $3.72 and Democrats kept $3.67. The next three questions added party affiliation into the mix for most players. They were told whether their anonymous partners were Democrats or Republicans,... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
position in Boston-area news broadcasting through its embrace of an innovative format and for affiliating with NBC. Since the early 2000s, however, other news programs had copied their format, and young audiences had begun to use the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel