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- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
resources in the ongoing accumulation of scientific knowledge. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2478627 October 2014 Research Policy 'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
bribes paid, including the bribe amount, the name of the corrupt official, and services rendered. The ipaidabribe.com portal then aggregates these data to create maps and charts of corrupt activities across Indian cities. The theory is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
prior theory of subsidiary absorptive capacity and argue that larger subsidiaries, characterized by greater knowledge stock and a greater fraction of local employees, could plausibly absorb more knowledge from the local host country... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
specializing in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics. "Standard economic theory suggests that as long as people understand the full consequences of their actions, they tend to act in their self interest," says John. "If they want... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
We contribute to institutional theory by identifying selective disclosure as a corporate symbolic strategy and by revealing how scrutiny and norms limit this symbolic behavior. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer, while you look after your other constituents on an as-needed basis." In the east quadrant, Simons focuses on performance variables and the theory of value creation. "We build strategy maps and figure out how to assess... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the popular choice. Our findings are consistent with optimal distinctiveness and middle-status conformity theories and have implications for designing normative marketing campaigns. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
theories and developing new ones. Q: Professor Josh Lerner recently published an article ["Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the Impact on Innovation," Josh Lerner, Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
models or for country-level factors like culture, genes, or institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-052.pdf A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level Authors:Diego A. Comin and Sunil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
differences in motives and activities of not-for-profit organizations, and the need to develop additional theories to address those differences in explaining interorganizational arrangements between them. The Structural Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
incumbents do not achieve this objective because they encourage the survival and expansion of low-type firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54520 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy A Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
examples. The article claims that by focusing on agency, learning, intentionality, and demand-side factors, our approach complements and also challenges extant sometimes static, supply-side, agent-agnostic theories of the multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
family, friends, and employees." Jim Stuart has even gone so far as to help design a "Leadership Circle," an intensive program for CEOs scheduled to debut this summer in New Mexico that will integrate current management View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso