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- 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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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52090 forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Heterogeneous View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
diffusion of new technologies. A networked incubator can provide tremendous value to a start-up team through connections that help forge crucial strategic partnerships, recruit highly talented people, and obtain important advice from...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
can increase creativity within a firm, they also aid in the diffusion of creative knowledge to other firms through personnel and knowledge transfer. Firms that operate within small worlds such as in Silicon Valley long ago learned to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government...
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- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
emphasis on indoor air quality and other healthy building measures will diffuse through the rest of the economy. As the country begins to return to work, concerns about the spread of infectious disease will “make it easier than ever to...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
R&D Failures By: Krieger, Joshua Lev Abstract— I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors' failures as well as through their own results. I examine the trade-offs and interactions between...
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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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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
describes the current state of information technology connectivity in the health care sector. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Ericsson: Leading in Times of Change Harvard Business...
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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
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
the difference between using new information technologies to automate and to informate. Automation strategies stress labor substitution and cost reduction. Informating strategies stress information diffusion...
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by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Organizational Capabilities Authors:Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked quite radically-not because...
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Sean Silverthorne