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02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

prompted a new research paper that starts to investigate ways to make these patents less volatile and more efficient—and makes the case for increased government involvement. "Standards are ubiquitous and necessary," says Josh... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

and the US auto industry are on their way to recovery and that the IPO symbolizes the beginning of a new stage in the life of GM, whose sales figures have recently shown improvement. Vineet Kumar, Assistant Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

campuses, one in Europe and one in Asia, INSEAD had been a pioneer in setting up a secondary campus as a way to push the internationalization of its faculty and curriculum. The case explores INSEAD's approach to business education in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a centralized facility where it... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

24 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

a buddy to do so. The second area of fraud—in some ways even more interesting to me—is online affiliate programs. The word "affiliate" simply means that the ultimate advertiser, the merchant, thinks of himself as being at arm's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

several members of the quartet. Time spent rehearsing was time not spent performing and recording. They did eventually record the entire string quartet cycle on Nimbus. Folks who are able to play the way these guys play can get lots of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

treatments in greater depth, we investigate factors affecting deposit frequency and size and discuss possible ways of increasing deposits. Next, we compare the effectiveness of both deposit contract and lottery interventions as a function... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

first clarify, my work does not assess the success or failure of the socialization model described in Manufacturing Morals. I consider myself a process researcher, namely a scholar examining the ways in which human systems operate to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

and who are Indian American. They probably look at things in a very similar way and are unlikely to challenge each other. But at the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other." Gompers and Xuan... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

interviewed had not relaxed the standards, and in fact they said that, if anything, they had held women entrepreneurs to a higher standard because they did not want to be viewed as a weak link or an easy way into the firm. They did think... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

strictly online. Who reads newspapers? Old guys. So this is an industry that is being dramatically transformed. “The reality for the advertising industry is that the old model is broken.” As broadband enables new forms of entertainment and new View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

just maintaining their capital ratios. Third, the best way to deal with the inevitable gaming of any set of ex ante capital rules is not to propose further rules, but rather to allow the regulator sufficient flexibility to address... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

change effort is doomed. Kotter reveals the insidious nature of complacency in all its forms and guises. In this exciting new book, Kotter explains: How to go beyond "the business case" for change to overcome the fear and anger that can suppress urgency;... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

missing the consequences and longer-term effects.” UNEQUAL PAY FALLOUT Partnerships remain key to the way the professional service and investment sectors are run. Previous research has shown that the partnership structure has many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

numbers went way up during the financial crisis. They went up again during COVID-19. But they're back down at very low levels. That tells you that credit markets are bullish in that sense. On the other hand, credit expansion has been... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

working conditions occur in the United States or Europe, usually there is a cry for more regulatory enforcement—along with an ensuing debate about how much government is enough (or too much). When such incidents happen overseas, however,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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