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  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

to be more active and independent.” A social computing design Yiling Chen, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at SEAS, talked about social computing, where human creativity is used to accomplish computational tasks. Chen, a faculty View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

foreign subsidiaries because of the tax costs associated with repatriating foreign income. Consistent with this hypothesis, firms that face higher repatriation tax burdens hold higher levels of cash, hold this cash abroad, and hold this cash in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

IFC: LA/Hollywood

href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/Standard-Poor-s-NetAdvantage" target="_blank">Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage 
Best for a broad industry overviews. Covers industry trends, forecasts, major players and View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, strategy beyond View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax jurisdictions use trade credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

values were reflected in the zaibatsu and other enterprise groups, which paternalistically watched over their affiliated companies. Within the organization, such values were evident in the widespread norm of lifetime employment... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

brands like Toyota, Nike, Sony, and Nestlé, Blackshaw shows managers and marketers how to establish and maintain credibility for their brand by being authentic, listening and responding to customers, and forming relationships built on... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

"is like any gas that is compressed; it gets hotter." Its tribes overlap socially and professionally based on work discipline (software engineers, for example), organizational affiliation (Hewlett-Packard), or background... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

for alumni to use their business skills,” says Sanchez, noting that the group will assess and refine its strategies before entering the next project cycle. Richard Gehrman (MBA ’76) and Tony Levy (MBA ’88) serve as cochairs of the Community Partners Program View Details
Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

Capital Association. When it comes to technology start-ups, Accel’s niche, Breyer ascribes the firm’s success to “a balance of people judgment, market intuition, as well as luck,” with luck sometimes claiming top billing. He candidly... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500 CEO in history, had been the market leader in PC sales in the early 2000s. In recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2016
  • News

Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

the school was,” he recalls. “They were all going after the same target audience, the same speakers, the same sponsors. It just wasn’t very efficient. So I thought, Why don’t we put something together that’s agnostic of which school you are View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Competition Corrupts Business Practices, suggests that many organizations in highly competitive markets are likely to bend the rules if doing so will keep their customers from leaving for a rival firm. "Competition is generally... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

rights (IPR) and technology transfer? Fritz Foley: Before going to graduate school, I spent a year living in Sri Lanka. I was affiliated with the Institute of Policy Studies, an economic think tank, where I conducted research on... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

ratios. Conversely, peer 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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

income, employment, religion, and health status. Other factors were psychological and behavioral, like political affiliation and how much people trust the scientists responsible for making health recommendations. Why are women behaving... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301814 2006 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne