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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
could possibly remember and convey. In other words, one should not jump to the conclusion that because the Internet appears cheaper it can solve a company's go-to-market problem. The solution has to match what customers want. Most of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
employees were passing by the clinic location on a typical day. Each employee was assigned an anonymous ID code, which allowed Beshears to match the data with whether that individual got a flu shot without identifying workers by name. The... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
should prepare as we do in the classroom, learning about the fateful decisions ahead and where each choice is likely to take them. Q: What do you hope readers will take away from the book? A: Awareness of the road ahead, matched by an... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
that can be mixed and matched in many combinations, depending on customers' needs. For example, General Motors designs and produces several transmissions, engines, and chassis that can be used to produce nearly its entire line of autos of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50067 Harvard Business School Case 315-049 Cravia: An Entrepreneurial Endeavor in Dubai Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
with those who allocate resources might affect innovation outcomes and the matching of resources to individuals within a distributed organization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52163 Can CEO Activism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
sample of M&A deals from 2003 to 2015 to identify four such areas of evolution in current transactional practice: (1) termination fee "creep," which was pervasive in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have gone away by the 2000s; (2) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
there are a range of business analyst jobs that complement coders to deliver quality software and technology-based services. Since state governments run public schools, community colleges, and public universities, they desperately need to evolve their curriculum to... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
From France to Italy, Germany to Denmark, chances are good that if you pick a country in Europe, you can match it with its state-owned airline. But as Europe unites, barriers come down, and competition heats up, cross-border mergers have... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
women from advancing and make their work lives uncomfortable. In my experience, Damore’s assertions don’t match the reality in today’s corporate environment. Having worked with female CEOs under enormous pressure, such as General Motors’... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
poses to large corporations as well as the key activities the open innovation unit engages in to deal with them. In particular, it must manage relationships with various stakeholders to leverage the value of matching external ideas and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
workers are willing to accept them. We present a model and experiment in which workers' quality becomes known only in the late part of the market. However, in equilibrium, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches the outputs of these two production systems. The company has also built extensive expertise in accessing the many mortgage and funding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace