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  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated,” she said. “Bright spots and positive momentum matter when it comes to directing the energy that exists in Cincinnati toward addressing the epidemic.” Now though, days before Hacking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

  PublicationsWhat to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential Author:Robert Steven Kaplan Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 Abstract Successful leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

double-edged sword because of the power such a client has over a young, struggling firm, the signal that the prestige of the client sends out is more valuable than any potential negative impact. Hence, entrepreneurs and managers should... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

watching the response." Let them lead while you learn. When you identify new offerings or markets where your assessment of initial risk versus potential returns suggests caution, a competitor may do you the favor of venturing onto... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

current research on document management, with a view to identifying a potential spin-off. Shao and Newton had both worked together at Ingres, a database software company. Shao had been a member of one other startup company and had spent... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked the View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

Alfaro, is more sanguine. She notes, "The Latin American population is young and optimistic. Despite the problem of income inequality, the potential is there. If the economies and the infrastructure continue to improve, and access to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

base. However, Leung knew that the current growth trajectory would not lead them to the milestones needed to receive an additional round of financing. Leung must decide whether to continue pursuing user acquisition experiments, explore other product ideas, or begin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

markets seem to have stabilized for now, what are the potential ramifications globally of China’s market troubles? Could their problems spill over into other markets? A: Certainly it was trouble from a stock market perspective. The fall... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

online retailer demonstrates that cost transparency improves sales. In particular, cost transparency led to a 44% increase in daily unit sales. This research implies that by revealing costs-typically tightly guarded secrets-marketers can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

representations, and the organization's own set of beliefs and practices.  By linking these changes to the company documents, the study sheds light on how shifts in US society's understanding of gender influences beliefs and practices inside organizations.  To maximize... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810141-PDF-ENG Whole Foods Acquires Wild Oats (A) Michael D. Kimbrough, Sudhakar Balachandran, Madhav Srinivasan, and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Case 109-029 Examines the implications of Whole Foods' CEO's anonymous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 17 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

your advertisements to action; that's the difference. If you're willing to click, it links you to a potential transaction or at least to get more information, which can then pull you in further. The ease of broadband gets people much more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

promote the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Reebok has since engaged in other activities with Amnesty International, and human rights has become a core value in the company. Before strategic fit can be explored, a View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

million to $15 million. During this phase, you can self-finance or establish a search fund to recruit potential investors. Strike a deal. When you’ve settled on a target, do preliminary due diligence to confirm the business’s viability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

Gronin, et al. Abstract—Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

is significantly more modular than the product from the tightly coupled organization. We measure modularity by capturing the level of coupling between a product's components. The magnitude of the differences is substantial—up to a factor of eight—in terms of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

classification and are more dynamic, pliable, and concentrated. We also show that co-search intensity captures the degree of similarity between firms. Our results highlight the potential of the collective wisdom of investors―extracted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne