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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
the experience of the auditors on the job—with those who had a longer tenure tending to find and report more violations. Surprisingly, however, level of education had no effect on the findings, implying that learning in school is no View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
individual will perceive entrepreneurial opportunities as well as increase his or her motivation to pursue those opportunities. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been entrepreneurs before. Peer influences...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
taxing corporations on foreign profits was that firms choose to invest either at home or abroad. Do we know if the activities abroad of U.S. firms really reduce their activities at home in the way that many people have suggested? A: This intuition that firms View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
a month. Hanna: Right. DiDonna: What I would encourage people to do is substitute out the work intensity and life intensity for intensity in something that you're passionate about and that's meaningful to you. Whether that's an immersive...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
happening because of the media and technology. The world is a smaller place. We’re all connected,” she says, and adds with a smile, “You can’t hide anymore.” While the technological advances are significant, Moore is quick to point out that technology is not a View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
in sequence, map onto how very young children play. These components are (1) focusing on substitutes and borrowing selectively from peers, (2) testing assumptions about profit logics before committing to one, and (3) pausing with a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
inputs are complements (substitutes). We also find that the optimal strength of patents on research inputs is increasing in the degree of substitution between the inputs but decreasing in the number of inputs for any degree of...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
intervention on an issue or situation, he explained, he would "review the process used by the 'lower court' to determine if it followed the rules. If so, the decision stands." He did not review cases de novo and substitute his...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld...
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Anna Secino
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53855 Buying...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional memory can serve as partial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
modification, pain-relieving drugs) as either a complement to, or substitute for, surgical procedures, and patients were actively engaged in the process of determining what type of care to pursue. In addition, Weinstein and his staff...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
additional applications for the technology that Fuji had developed for the analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the opportunity to branch out into...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
mental benefits, which means deep, uninterrupted sleep. Naps are not necessarily bad, but aren’t an adequate substitute for full-cycle sleep. Good sleep hygiene includes avoiding display screens for 30 minutes before sleep, sleeping in a...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
experiences alter their responses. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, we find that this substitution curtails significantly following the negative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
substituting for Alexa after she lost her voice, and Tide, which offered multiple spots featuring actor David Harbour seemingly appearing in other ads, then pointing to clean clothes and calling it “a Tide ad.” PepsiCo, Wendy’s, and...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
possibilities as opportunities to complement what we currently do. Let me explain. I don't think anything can substitute for the magic of what happens on our campus and in our classroom. While I know the phrase "transformational" sounds...
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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the opportunity to branch out into new markets that exploit its specialty chemical expertise. The challenges...
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