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- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
channels will fuel a shift in consumption away from hits to a much larger number of lower-selling niche products. While the long-tail view predicts an increase in the heterogeneity of consumption patterns, the well-known superstar effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
many "multicultural marketing" efforts are both limited and limiting, and how firms can go beyond demographic data to craft effective strategies for selling to ethnic markets within the U.S. Read the Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
complete abandonment of the current system. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13213 Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Li Jin Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP31.pdf Working PapersWhen Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper describes how entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
Working Papers Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study how external versus internal innovations promote economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer for whom it is produced. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely unexamined. We explore this dimension of volume-based learning in a setting where doctors at an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as functionally organized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
Examiner shares are highest for non-US applicants and in electronics, communications, and computer-related fields. However, most of the variation is explained by firm-specific variables, with the largest patent applicants having high examiner shares. Moreover, a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Real investment falls in the three years following the controls. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that abstract from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
consequences. In corporations, these leaders excel in regulated industries and in firms that take a process approach to innovation. The larger lesson that the military can offer the business world is that fit matters. Different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
http://www.amazon.com/Business-History-Elgar-Walter-Friedman/dp/1781955263/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389789862&sr=1-2&keywords=Business+History+Jones+and+Friedman August 2013 Management Science The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
likelihood of implementation, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to play a key role. In particular, the likelihood of implementation is increasing in the percentage of votes cast in favor of the proposal and in the ownership and influence of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11
firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that predicts when information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace