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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
social efficiency, and we argue that implementation of this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for the price trajectory of IPv4 addresses. In a world without uncertainty, the unit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
firms are now building cars as well as anybody else. Yes, the Japanese have a lead in hybrids, but it's possible that some other technology will be the better way to go. Things change in this industry. American firms may currently be...
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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Amazon.com, Inc., specializing in the provision of web-based storage and computing services to web developers. The case focuses on the issues facing Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, in 2008 as AWS faces increased competition from established View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
In July, after ten years at the School's helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University-Idaho. During Clark's decade of leadership, the School became a standard-setter in the use of information View Details
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by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
controlling the flow of the investment. For an example of what we mean, let's look at Teradyne, the maker of semiconductor test equipment. In 1997, the company was confronted with an important innovation: the application of CMOS chip View Details
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
that they'll design businesses that we want to acquire and will fit the niches in our portfolio of product or in the innovation trajectory that we've designed.' "Frankly, I think a smart corporation would be wise to be tapping that...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture capital finance for renewable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Hurricane Sandy forced a full evacuation of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. The institution, which comprised NYU Medical School and several teaching hospitals, had been on an upward trajectory for several years under the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In this qualitative study, I examine the factors that influence the re-emergence of market demand for a legacy technology in a mature institutional field. I extend...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
and the legacy that you wish to leave, and it is probably still my favorite of all Ishiguro’s books. I also love memoirs and found Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air to be so powerful. It is a thought-provoking book for those like...
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by Staff
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
that would define the world of technology and transform our lives. At their peaks, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel were collectively worth some $1.5 trillion. Strategy Rules examines these three individuals collectively for the first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle by developing a co-evolutionary model of technological frames and technology. Applying that model...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
technological disruptions. Scholars such as HBS professors Clayton M. Christensen, well known for his research on disruptive technological change and author of The Innovator's Dilemma, and Dorothy Leonard,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripheral products. I wanted to explain in some detail how this happened. Nancy Koehn: Reading Al's work, I was struck by the implications of technological change for the demand side of the economy. As a historian watching the...
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by Jim Aisner
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India By: Hussam, Reshmaan Abstract—Sex ratios at birth have risen steadily over the last three decades across much of the developing world. Many attribute this rise to improved access to sex selection View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne