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  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

workforce diversity initiatives. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf Cases & Course Materials Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 1993 (Revised August 2011)
  • Exercise

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (A)

By: Roy D. Shapiro
First set of exercises meant to be used with ExtendSim, a simulation system created by Imagine That, Inc. of San Jose, California. These exercises allow students to investigate the impact of variable processing times on the performance of simple in-line processes.... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Business Processes; Performance; Mathematical Methods
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  • September 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Background Note

Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations

This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Mathematical Methods
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  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

monetary gains—but more risk-seeking towards positive experiences, such as eating desserts—as for monetary losses. These risk preferences for experiences are robust to different methods of elicitation. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

implementation plan for a specific market—Brazil—is described. In particular, we are given data that were used in the roll-out process that showed the market's managers how they compared with other markets on a number of dimensions. Finally, the (D) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

decided to enter anyway and succeeded in capturing a significant piece of the sector for its creams, soaps, and shampoos. The company did so by linking their products with Shantala massage, a popular technique in Brazil for strengthening bonds between mothers and their... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

features. First, financiers engage in the costly but potentially profitable process of innovation: they can invent better methods for screening entrepreneurs. Second, every screening process becomes less effective as technology advances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2012
  • Article

Discrete Choice Cannot Generate Demand That Is Additively Separable in Own Price

By: Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We show that in a unit demand discrete choice framework with at least three goods, demand cannot be additively separable in own price. This result sharpens the analogous result of Jaffe and Weyl (2010) in the case of linear demand and has implications for testing of... View Details
Keywords: Discrete Choice; Unit Demand; Separable Demand; Linear Demand; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Mathematical Methods; Economics
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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans

By: Ian D. Gow, Christopher S. Armstrong and David F. Larcker
This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs, we find little... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Executive Compensation; Rights; Performance Effectiveness; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

important Delaware case law created a difference in the standard of judicial review for the two basic methods of freezing out minority shareholders. While a freeze-out executed as a statutory merger is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-079.pdf Cases & Course Materials Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

(forthcoming) Abstract Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which participants go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 708-490 The management team of an industrial equipment supplier is debating the company's method of compensating salespeople. Different executives have offered different alternatives to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

desires of sports fans, alumni, and athletes themselves are at the crossroads of these realignment decisions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46476   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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