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- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
sacred; business cherishes results. Science should be about openness; business is about secrecy. Science demands validity; business requires utility. So, the tensions are deep. What has happened is that we have tried to mash these two... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In this qualitative study, I examine the factors that influence the re-emergence of market demand for a legacy technology in a mature institutional field. I extend previous work related to field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g., construction, analysis, or intervention), and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study grows, we become aware that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out of mean variance View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
that people associate with global brands. Then we surveyed 1,800 people in twelve nations to measure the relative importance of those dimensions when consumers buy products. A detailed analysis revealed that consumers all over the world... View Details
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Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
Black Lives Matter movement had increased that percentage to 28 percent in 2020, but it has waned since then. Looking forward, Heidrick & Struggles’ report points out that its analysis of executive teams at Fortune 100 firms shows only... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
drives auditor lobbying. Broadly, our paper offers the first large-sample descriptive analysis of the role of Big N auditors in the accounting standard-setting process. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545378 Cashing Out:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
co-workers. We argue that peers may increase an individual's likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur through two channels: by increasing the likelihood that an individual will perceive entrepreneurial opportunities, and by increasing his or her willingness to pursue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
ensuring the health of their employees and their families by demanding more aggressive requirements from their health plans or they must work directly with large health systems. At this stage in our nation's history we face a clear... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
deeply personal. In 2021, wind and solar comprised 70% of new U.S. generating capacity additions, with natural gas accounting for just 16%. Diana specifically cited Lazard’s analysis of the relative costs of unsubsidized energy sources,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
so you can fail and learn and get back up.”“ By doing deep “smoke-testing“ and analysis of the marketplace, Marcelo knew there was huge demand for a service like Care.com. From $400,000 in... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
similar companies move from segment-and-account or product-and-service-level analysis into the greater detail offered at the order level. By and large, those companies that devoted themselves to the effort were richly rewarded. The order... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around the world and to View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Based on the fact that stores prioritize carrying products for which local demand is high, we test the hypothesis that introducing the STS functionality increased the retailer’s overall sales dispersion. We find that, on average, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
indicate that patient demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variations. Physician organizational factors matter, but the most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment. In Medicare, we estimate that 35% of spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne