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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers

Keywords: by Timothy F. Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin; Technology; Computer
  • 18 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson
  • 19 Oct 2018
  • News

7 projects win Harvard Global Institute grants

  • 2001
  • Article

The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and regions? This paper considers existing literature on measuring the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Welfare; Information Technology; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

personal models of success, the first step in the process is introspection, followed by a creative and savvy approach to one's actual next career move. In the May program, participants spent time in intensive groups. Dr. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices fell View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

experiments offer evidence that debates about the relative costs and benefits of self-deception are informed by adopting a temporal view that assesses the cumulative impact of self-deception over time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Indoor Spaces | About

of Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA 1971) and is named in honor of his classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA 1971). Bricklin Classroom The Dan Bricklin Classroom, located inside Aldrich Hall, was named by the School in honor of alumnus and... View Details
  • May 2014
  • Article

Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry

By: Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
Competition to become one of several dominant mobile platforms is intense. Platforms compete for developers, who create applications which make the platform valuable for users. Why doesn't one form of platform governance emerge as superior? This essay will stress the... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

in MBS duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is limited in the short run, so... View Details
  • Web

Connell House | About

Connell House William F. Connell (MBA 1963) Connell House (formerly Fowler House) is named for distinguished business leader and generous HBS benefactor William F. Connell (MBA 1963). The three-story,... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211045-PDF-ENG Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers F. Asís Martínez-Jerez and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 111-069 PepsiCo developed a new metric that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

from the U.S. Production Network.” Archie L. Jones : Named one of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors by Savoy Magazine in 2021. Archie L. Jones : Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • winter 1985
  • Article

The Nonpecuniary Costs of Automobile Emissions Standards

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Dennis Yao
An important component of the costs of automotive air-pollution control has been nonpecuniary: a decline in vehicle performance characteristics. This regulatory impact on what the auto industry calls "drivability" has never been quantified, although there is... View Details
Keywords: Transportation; Pollutants; Cost; Standards; Performance; Quality; Auto Industry
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  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

as to why people accept cheating by others. Our results indicate that the effect is due at least in part to the failure to notice that unethical behavior is occurring when the change is gradual rather than abrupt. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman