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20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

Move over, venture cap. There's a new kid on the block. It's the business incubator, and it has the potential to remake the way businesses are launched in the Internet economy. Incubators are not really new, of course. "They've been... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

June 2012
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A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury

One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the wrong answer unless one considers the ways firms compete. Because... View Details

Keywords: Governance; System Shocks; India

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Purpose of the Firm | Institute for Business in Global Society

Purpose of the Firm Companies are increasingly evaluated not just on their financial performance but on their contributions to society. This section investigates the changing purpose of the firm in society... View Details

2014
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Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

By: Andrea Hugill and Jordan Siegel

Scholars of corporate governance have debated the relative importance of country and firm characteristics in understanding corporate governance variation across emerging economies. Using panel data and a number of model specifications, we shed new light on this debate.... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies

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22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism

Since the start of the 2000s, historians have renewed their interest in capitalism, two Harvard professors observe in their new book, American Capitalism: New Histories. One of the primary contributing... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

17 Oct 2014
News

Small, but fierce: How tiny firms can pack a big punch

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52312 Equality and Equity in Compensation By: Bao, Jiayi, and Andy Wu Abstract—Equity compensation is widely used for incentivizing skilled employees, particularly in new technology... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2008 (Revised April 2013)
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Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty

By: Geoffrey Jones and David Kiron

Considers the creation of the world's largest fragrance company by Bernd Beetz, appointed chief executive of Coty Inc. in 2001. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of developing a beauty... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Germany; United States

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February 2018 (Revised June 2021)
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New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Kyle Thomas

This case highlights the business challenges associated with a financial technology firm, New Constructs, that created a technology that can quickly parse complicated public firm financials to paint a clearer economic picture of firms, remove accounting distortions,... View Details

Keywords: Fundamental Analysis; Machine Learning; Robo-analysts; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Analysis; Information Technology; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; North America; Tennessee

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FDA Review Time of New Drug Applications

Study of FDA Review Time of New Drug Applications (NDAs) between 1990-2004. Three main questions are addressed: How the optimal innovation strategy for firms is contingent upon firm status positions in the knowledge domain; how knowledge status both enables and... View Details

22 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel

06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the United States. However, healthy banks expanded their operations and entered new banking markets. The market share gain of these banks was a standard... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2001
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Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the heads of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also happened to serve as a director of a... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information

January–February 2012
Article

Do You Need a New Product-Development Strategy?

By: Alan MacCormack, W. Crandall, P. Toft and P. Henderson

Many firms rely on a single new-product development process for all projects. But designing new products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Product Development

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20 Jul 2020
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Survey shows South African firms in some sectors are highly innovative

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

extension of organization boundaries. In the future, will this phenomenon be limited primarily by the environment, or by the ability of managers to take advantage of it? What do you think? Original Article A byword of the new economy has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

The Tata Group is celebrating its acquisition of the Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus, and the catapulting of Tata Steel into world steel's big-five status (by revenue). It should. The $11 billion deal is a marker in the ground. Not that it... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

Sachs started the 10,000 Small Businesses program to help small businesses in the United States by providing education and a network of support—at no cost —and access to capital. It required the firm to create a View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2009
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Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues

By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda

Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does not seem to be very friendly to entrepreneurs, as confirmed by... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Competition; Mexico

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