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- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
prioritizing customer satisfaction, and using technology to gather classroom data to create continuous improvement and personalization. In short, Ventilla is combining the mission of delivering high-quality, modernized education with an... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
organizations that really ends up with no trend line” “For decades, we’ve been in this cycle where an organization hires a consulting firm to help design and execute a restructuring, and then, as soon as they’re done, they start that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
& Johnson and SmithKline made a strong showing in their data set, young firms led by biotech executives who came from one particular organization—Baxter-Travenol—stood head and shoulders above the rest... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
level data set of 29 countries between 1985 and 2000, we find that the growth effects of FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Consulting on the Cusp of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
hell of a good thing," Corzine said. Now that Congress has doubled the SEC's budget under Sarbanes-Oxley, "the SEC can now compete more effectively in the marketplace." Confidence that was lost on all levels during the... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
slightly different approach to research in this area by deciding that entrepreneurship should not be what we study, but rather, the entrepreneurial firm should be where we study. Q: What have been the main findings of the inquiry that has... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay By: Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita Tucker Abstract—We use two years of inpatient... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to investigate whether a good match plays a role in a coach’s... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
usage; however, customer-to-customer communications tended to increase personal-use engagement across latent states and in both data sets. The findings suggest that firms offering digital services should pay... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now discovering is that increasing View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunity or bubble] will happen at the national level at once is a big question mark." Warren Ching comments, "The Chinese government wants nothing but [to save] face. They will not allow this kind of economic meltdown."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
of this technology still remain a dilemma even after the introduction of 'the innovator's solution.' Research in this direction would be welcome." B. V. Krishnamurthy takes the idea to another level by commenting, "The heart of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
discovered these negative results, some firms might have thrown in the towel and moved on to other projects. But Pfizer's scientists picked up on—and decided to pursue—what they thought might be an interesting side effect. That side... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
research shows. The results also suggest that when firms felt they could get away with something, they went big, Heese explains. The severity of the violations companies committed after newspapers vanished was more alarming than the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
limited quantity. The competition has no comparable model. Which price should the company choose? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54489 Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation By: Alfaro, Laura,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman