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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
strong selection effect: R&D resources (skilled labor) are inefficiently used by low-type incumbent firms. Subsidies to incumbents encourage the survival and expansion of these firms at the expense of potential high-type entrants. We show that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
justify the actions of this individual and to behave more selfishly and less ethically themselves. We also establish the mechanism explaining this effect: when participants felt psychologically close to someone who had behaved selfishly,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
hired a tech service firm to design an app, and two weeks later, he launched Flashfood. “He had no expertise around food. He didn't know how to build a mobile app. He had no resources or capital,” Satchu says. “Yet somehow, he committed,... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
its suspension, consistent with the importance of reputation. Larger firms and those with greater growth options were more likely to leave, also consistent with the reputation argument. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557231 ... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially from the markdown View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and Innovation Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
outcomes. (2) Selecting or developing leaders for the future requires a forward-looking strategy and culture. (3) In a merger, designing a new culture on the basis of complementary strengths can speed up integration and create more value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
higher bonus." By contrast, in the traditional mode, where the salon employs the stylists, the competitive pressure is absent, so the salon would have to pay a higher bonus in order to motivate them to the same extent. Thus, this View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
Michael Luca and Weijia (Daisy) Dai, an assistant professor of economics at Lehigh University, recently studied effectiveness of paid search ads for small businesses by designing a large-scale field experiment that involved nearly 20,000... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
mechanisms by which multinational activity might create positive effects and externalities to countries and the role of complementary local conditions, also known as “absorptive capacities,” that allow a country to reap the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
week's US Supreme Court ruling. It's time to end three-and-a-half years of political wrangling and make the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) work. The law's shortcomings are well known. It provides health care access to 30 million people, but contains no viable... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
between and among experimenters and theorists, and psychologists and economists, about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
will drive its adoption of Web services: the movement from proprietary to more commonly used technologies; a shift from mechanical systems to those driven by computer connections; and the development of cars that are always "on the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
initiative was founded with the goal of optimizing the business plan in precision medicine to accelerate new therapies to oncology patients,” says co-chair Kathy Giusti, adding that much of that work has entailed identifying... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman