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  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

what products or services to offer by first looking inside. Contrary to most companies that begin by looking at markets and competition, these CEOs looked inside to define "who" the company was—where was the most powerful intersection... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. By identifying and analyzing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to explore the mechanism behind the rise in income inequality. We find tax cuts lead to higher reported capital income and a decrease in wage and salary income. These effects are concentrated among top earners, and we find no effects for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

increased self-employment by 15%. Monte Carlo evidence suggests the technique significantly reduces bias and Type-1 Error. SCHIP increased incorporated ownership by 36% and business share of household income by 12%, implying higher-quality ventures. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

systems. That translates into long and inconsistent lead times." 50 A number of technology providers are offering Internet-based products that address exactly this problem. Some of them concentrate on integrating information systems... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

method patents that were litigated compared to patents that were not litigated offer empirical evidence supporting the hypotheses.   Cases & Course MaterialsThe AtekPC Project Management Office Harvard Business School Case 308-049... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all competing financiers choose to offer failure-tolerant contracts to attract entrepreneurs, leaving no capital to fund the most... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

distribution will fundamentally change the number and variety of products that consumers purchase. However, there is sharp disagreement about what type of change will occur. Proponents of the "long tail" idea argue that a sharp increase in the variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

mechanism was the same. After the command line came MS-DOS, then Windows 3.0, and so on. “So, essentially, we added a layer of abstraction onto the punch card. Just adding these layers of abstractions completely changed who could use a... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

with (i) a new venture's affiliations with venture capitalists (VCs) that have prominent positions in syndicate networks and (ii) a new venture's prominent position in alliance networks resulting from previous alliances offer redundant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

outcome, it strongly increases valuation of an ambiguous financial prospect. However, when information supports an unfavorable outcome, it has significantly less impact. We find that two mechanisms drive this asymmetry. First, unfavorable... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

commences with an overview of why industry research is relevant, then offers detailed guidelines on how to approach and what to consider when investigating an industry as part of the analysis necessary to make a decision about investing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal strategy of a profit-maximizing firm,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

attributes needed to succeed at Baker & McKenzie? How would the firm's hundreds of partners react? Offers the industry- and firm-specific content necessary for students to explore these questions and more. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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