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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
entrepreneurial way — she cofounded New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit that is helping to develop the next generation of urban school principals. NLNS was launched from a business plan submitted to the 2000 HBS Business Plan View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
push prices closer to the fundamentals. Bargaining in the Shadow of PeopleSoft's (Defective) Poison Pill Author:Guhan Subramanian Publication:Harvard Negotiation Law Review (winter 2007) Abstract This Commentary is part of a dealmaking symposium on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53371 What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management By: Soltes, Eugene F., Suraj Srinivasan, and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
expressing frustration about their country’s recurring crises, and describing a business class lacking cohesion. While Chilean business leaders have secured legitimacy for their role in Chilean economic success over the last three decades, in Argentina their role has...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
broadcast them inside and outside. Another study looks at the interaction between intellectual property constraints and collaboration constraints. MathWorks, which makes MATLAB software, has been running a fun "wiki-like" programming View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
economic thought and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49787 Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
four non-mutually-exclusive types: constitutive norms; social purposes; relational comparisons with other social categories; and cognitive models. Contestation refers to the degree of agreement within a group over the content of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
and contested each year over two weeks in late June and early July, Wimbledon, in many ways, had changed little over the years. Its showcase venue—the 15,000 seat “Centre Court,” complete with a “Royal Box”—was built in 1926. Slazenger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
practices or the contested meanings in the adoption of new practices (Leblibici, et al., 1991; Lounsbury and Pollack, 2001). While both research approaches have been quite productive and provocative, some scholars have raised concerns...
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- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Rockman, Sven Beckert, and David Waldstreicher. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming Abstract The traditional story of modern management begins in the factories of England and New England, extending only much later to the American South. This paper View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
a proxy contest and a special shareholder meeting to vote on replacing Allergan's directors with a slate more favorable to the Valeant merger. The proposed Salix acquisition would give Allergan a new therapeutic market but would also make...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
colleagues, even if they’re not being overtly sexual. “You see these masculinity contests in workplaces, where people who victimize others are rewarded for their aggressive displays and are seen as leaders precisely because they bully...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
online communities segregate into separate conversations when contributing to contestable knowledge involving controversial, subjective, and unverifiable topics? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia...
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Sean Silverthorne