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  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

mandated to disclose information. We find particularly rapid improvement among establishments located close to their headquarters and among establishments with proximate siblings, especially when the proximate siblings are in the same... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

(or permanently, if set in your account's login scripts .bashrc/.bash_profile ; but this is not recommended). This then allows two choices for file redirection and potential manual temporary file cleanup: One can continue to use the local... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Rules-Timeless-Lessons-Gates/dp/0062373951/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1427236936&sr=8-1 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to Encourage Wise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

company full-time. Although Julia does not regret the choice to focus on schoolwork, reflecting she thinks maybe should have used that time to start a company instead.  After HBS, Julia ended up taking a job, and then another, before... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA

colleagues who may be visiting or residing in the immersion location may not participate in course activities (e.g., group sessions, field work, cultural excursions, group meals, etc.) nor may they stay in GEO-provided accommodations... View Details
  • June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?

By: Juan Alcácer and Alpana Thapar
This case illustrates the challenges that retailers face when they aggressively pursue geographical growth by expanding both their physical store network and their online presence. It features Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Retail, a franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the... View Details
Keywords: Stores; Ecommerce; Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Internet and the Web; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Middle East
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

continued exertion of control influences other companies’ choice to invest in furthering that technology is not well understood. This study looks at the impact of technology control on external contributions in open collaboration contexts... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

suppliers are more likely to share this information when requests from buyers are more prevalent, when buyers appear committed to using the information, when suppliers belong to more profitable industries, and when suppliers are located... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

to make time for both. You Have More Choices than You Think Ambitious people tend to pursue demanding careers. As they advance, many professionals cannot help but wonder about the state of their personal lives. What do they owe, and want... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

In examining the way governments choose a structure in which to conduct investment promotion activities we found that most of the organizational issues fell within the realm of the public-private choice of management of certain... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Manjari supports co-chairs William R. Kerr and Joseph B. Fuller on all project priorities. Her research efforts focus on location choices by global companies, the role of business in making cities and... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a multidimensional problem into a binary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

Lalocracio Location has always been a vital resource in business. “Location, location, location,” as they say in real estate. But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

their two daughters in Milton, MA. Glen Meakem (MBA 1991), Meakem Becker Venture Partners Glen T. Meakem is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Meakem Becker Venture Capital, a venture capital firm located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

way. Cloud kitchens are socially distanced by definition and are potentially safer for staff and for consumers. They generate no jobs (or tips) for wait staff, but other types of jobs, including delivery, are created. If they are located... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

White people often feel anxious about interacting with non-Whites, and they go out of their way to erect barriers to reduce contact with minorities, according to new research. When routinely making choices about where to live, work,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

together.   Did you both know that you wanted to attend business school? We both decided that business school was the right choice for us. We are both from the West Coast and wanted to find a way to both transition back west and explore... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using religious and ethnic similarities between the countries. Trust raises aggregate productivity through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

public is exposed to online influence their views on trade policy? And by how much? Slides Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices Professor Max H. Bazerman + More Info – Less Info When we think of leaders, we often... View Details