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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development/ar/1 Working PapersLearning by Supplying Authors:Juan Alcácer and Joanne Oxley Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee handbook) includes 100% self-allocated time, no managers (and therefore no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
indicated that the actual number of women in the industry grew by several hundred in that five-year period, but the percentage of women in the industry did not grow. We also discovered that there was significant attrition of managerial...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
expensive globalization and IT strategy. Under the leadership of founder and CEO Josef von Rickenbach, PAREXEL has made several bold investments over the past 20 years based on a vision of future industry dynamics and client demand....
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rgreenwood/bgjs9.pdf The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
protocol, and deportment comprise the visible tip, they might be linked to more deeply rooted, less obvious forces that are fully capable of sinking the ship. This working paper, through a questionnaire format—intended as an instrument to...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' capacity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the cooperative activity has arisen between the parties themselves as a matter of pragmatism. In either instance, tribes and states often find themselves at the bargaining table. The negotiation dynamics of tribal-state compacting,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
attention, overconfidence, and identity commitments-that affected the firm's ability to learn, attend to, reflect on, and dynamically respond to information and changes in its environment. Our longitudinal research reveals a downside of...
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Anna Secino
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
management team is wondering if it can take more control of distribution instead of leaving it to the Bordeaux wine merchants. Also, can the Chateau build marketing and sales capabilities on its own? Who is the target market, wine...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
leadership roles at Microsoft, Kieran created a linguistic services platform for developers, introducing natural language processing capabilities to Windows developers for the first time. She also led a cross-company engineering effort...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
business lending market. This ambitious book grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles, and the policy implications for regulation....
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
services, higher-skilled work, and often are a channel for small groups of people or firms to offer their services. How widespread was the use? To do what? And also we wanted to understand some of the organizational dynamics in companies...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Toffel Periodical:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
scenarios and with expert opinions on emerging risk issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and...
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Sean Silverthorne