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  • 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-024.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNone   PublicationsChallenges in Managing Large Projects Editors:J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller Publication:Defense Acquisition University Press, 2006 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

with a supplementary dataset from Uber (HBS No. 619-702). In advance of the class discussion, students can analyze the data and draw their own conclusions about the trade-offs of maintaining the standard wait times or increasing them.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

the context of vehicle emissions testing in a state in which the government has outsourced these inspections to the private sector. Analyzing millions of emissions tests, we find empirical support for our hypotheses that particular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

boundaries: cross-market, within-state hospital mergers yield price increases of 7%–9% for acquiring hospitals, whereas out-of-state acquisitions do not yield significant increases. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. By identifying and analyzing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

personality theory into a multi-level model of information acquisition and idea generation. We posit that innovator and peer personality are critical factors conditioning who will generate high-quality ideas, and that our proposed... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

(1990) and Petersen-Rajan (1995) models of information acquisition in credit markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-077.pdf Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

  Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Data were analyzed for type of failure and frequency of occurrence. Interviews were conducted with frontline staff. Principal Findings. The two most frequent categories of operational failures, equipment/supplies and facility issues,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

northeast of Denver. When it was introduced in 1983, DairyComp made it possible for workers to track and analyze the overall health and fertility of every cow, to ensure each animal was being cared for in a way that maximized milk... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

that it would merge with American Airlines to create the world’s largest airline. Doug Parker, the CEO of US Airways, would become CEO of the new American Airlines Group (AAL). The case describes a number of critical decisions Parker made and actions that he took in... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

Deals-Announcement Effects, Risk Arbitrage and Event Risk Harvard Business School Note 208-103 The announcement of merger or acquisition conveys new information to the capital markets. This note describes how the stock prices of a Buyer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace