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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

The Wise Men

managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, technological progress in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

strategy beyond markets. Very few studies have shown that a firm’s strategy increases policy performance; almost none have demonstrated a link between policy and firm profitability. Third, the topical areas of analysis appear to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

reliable ones? Should we abandon our current business model for an entirely new one? Making bold changes demands bold leadership and, often, massive cultural transformation. Li points to organizations that beat the odds and succeeded at... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Mara Aspinall

are now beginning to treat genetic analysis as an integral element in a patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan. But it cannot stop there. Since most currently practicing physicians have not been trained in this new field, there is a need... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

head CT order, time from head CT order to head CT scheduled, time from head CT scheduled to head CT completed, and time from head CT completed to head CT preliminary report), each process was the bottleneck 30%, <1%, 27%, and 42% of the time, respectively.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is compelling: a well-run fund can help a firm respond quickly to changes in markets and gain a better view of threats. In some cases, it can stimulate demand for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes the election was flawed, it can... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

deductibles. We show how choice difficulties or biases may lead patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by reducing demand for high-value care, muddying the traditional argument that the price elasticity of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • News

The Race for a Vaccine

its pipeline, Moderna had refined its development process—which begins with an analysis of a virus’s messenger RNA (mRNA)—and it had improved its production capabilities. Two months earlier, when he'd met NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms develop different skills, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls." NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

contemporary circumstances so as to be relevant for managers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52977 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of productivity gains from multinational production. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42615 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

  Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne