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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone value grants View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
examine how the price structure and investment incentives of the proprietary platform are affected by quality investments in the open platform. We find that access prices may increase or decrease as a result of investment in the open...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
knowledge, is now being embedded into the tools and building blocks used to make products? Willy Shih: Knowledge is one of the core resources in a company, and translating that knowledge into processes that produce products and services...
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- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States By: Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, Robert S. Huckman, and Mark D. Hornstein Abstract—Objective: To investigate the relationship between economic activities, insurance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Abstract This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance tradeoffs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
questions still remained: Was Promesa and the Oversight Board the best method to assist the island in fiscal recovery? Was the Board’s fiscal plan an acceptable approach? Would the island be able to regain access to capital markets and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation would actually increase innovation since it would tend to increase transparency in this field, and provide potential researchers with the data they need. Regulation could also increase access to reproductive services, which...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
care at religious mass gatherings. However, in 2015, at the Kumbh Mela in Nashik and Trimbakeshwar, the state government extended its services to include a hypertension-screening program. We examine here the value and implications of such...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Apple Computer knows how to make headlines. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh and is enjoying the fruits of its launch into the digital entertainment business. In its December quarter, Apple sold 730,000 iPods. And the iTunes music...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Safaris find a sustainable growth path that will allow it to profitably expand its business and meet its shareholders’ interests while still achieving its priority purposes of protecting and investing in the ecosystems and communities on which its View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,...
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by Staff
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Vietnam_Competitiveness_Report_2010_Eng.pdf Working PapersInside the Learning Curve: Customer-, Domain-, and Technology-Specific Learning in Outsourced Radiological Services Authors:Jonathan R. Clark, Robert...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
favorable court judgment was possible with the right covenants; collecting on that debt was not. Finding "attachable assets" that successful litigants could access remains challenging to this day, since sovereign nations have...
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by Laura Alfaro
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
against and refusing service to WikiLeaks. The attacker and the cause? A crowd (I don't know what else to call it, since it is not an organized group) that calls itself Anonymous and that was spawned by ideas exchanged on an Internet...
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by James L. Heskett
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
the blink of an eye. Wireless is another enabling technology, allowing the computer and other digital devices to access the Internet and other networks from an ever-increasing number of remote locations. In a business with strong network...
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- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of practices, "Ask team members what would work for them, their service area, customers, and work colleagues." Stacy Krauss suggests that "Employers who give employees flexibility win in the longer term due to loyalty and a...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings...
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Carmen Nobel