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Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol Benjamin N. Roth Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom Nicholas Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Data for Impact: Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the relation between a borrowing firm's ownership structure and its choice of debt source using a novel, hand-collected View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

publisher’s blessing. Some, such as League of Legends publisher Riot Games, serve as commissioners of their own leagues—to return to traditional sports analogies—while others outsource the responsibility to a third party. That new View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-013.pdf A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

analyses of data covering 69 two-digit SIC industries at two points in time, 1991 and 1999. In both years, approximately half of advertisers of all sizes operated an in-house agency. Across industries, we find that the likelihood of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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"Dutch" Leonard Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern Financial System Business, Government & the International Economy David Moss Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Crucibles of Crisis Leadership General Management Nancy Koehn Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 ^ back to top D Area Faculty Name... View Details
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2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Josh Baron Leading a Family Business (LFB) Strategy Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively Strategy Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 John Batter Law, Management and... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

weighs four options: continue expanding internationally to the U.S. and other distant markets, buy an ownership stake in Istanbul's other remaining airport, diversify into related businesses, or seek out large infrastructure projects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Researchers compared the pass/fail records of similar vehicles in both densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas, paying close attention to older vehicles with high mileage—that is, those more likely to need repairs in order to meet emissions standards. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

framework to separate these explanations. Estimating this model with data on treatments for heart attack patients, we find evidence of substantial variation across hospitals in both allocative inefficiency and comparative advantage, with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2022
  • News

Clean Slate

then used their findings to make some concrete changes. One key finding: Usage of the public toilet was heavily skewed with respect to gender. PSA: We've been collecting gender segregated data in all the public toilets and we realized... View Details
Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

radio station distribution and the roller coaster of trying to generate "Top 40" hits); and they acquired a 10 percent ownership stake in Island Records worth $30 million when the record company was acquired by PolyGram in 1989. U2 was... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

technology and develop a framework for understanding how software-driven medical devices differ from traditional medical devices. We identify opportunities and challenges for regulators and innovators in three main areas: (1) software development processes, (2) product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

or more agencies (or "networks" of specialized service agencies) under common ownership as quasi-independent entities. But since the mid-1980s, waves of mergers and acquisitions have created potential conflicts of interest as independent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at http://www.nber.org/data/chat. We discuss the main aim of CHAT, its scope and limitations, as well as several ways in which we have used... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace