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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
also learned how not to mess up a sales force. So there's a lot of specific learning. I think there's a flip side to what Scott just said. There's a certain sense of humility that can come out of being at HBS, too, which is healthy. To lead people successfully in... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than creating an institutional... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
spontaneous portion of the calls (i.e., management discussion). The capital market responds positively to optimistic tone yet does not distinguish between the optimism in tone of managers from different ethnic backgrounds. The findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
behaviors associated with building social capital influence individuals' psychological experiences and work outcomes. August 2014 Child Development Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform By: Chaplin,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the emerging superportable market would be huge, and HP engineers thought they could leverage existing intellectual property in drive design from their high-end 2.5" laptop drives. In other words, because it appeared able to satisfy... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
is it China, a place into which more resources are going than any other place in the world, and a place with more extraordinary human capital than any other place in the world, and a place (maybe because it's a communist country) that is... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market entrants; and, it had $13 million of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this all the way from lowly London artisans to intellectual luminaries like John Locke. Abroad he became influential because he revealed the economic principles driving England's success. Cary was theoretically innovative in justifying... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
inefficiencies and capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more business law attorneys);... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
availability risk during economic downturns During economic downturns or periods of high unemployment, capital may be scarce. Support structures typically needed to grow a business—like financing and mentorship—might not be as readily... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011 it raised $30 million in venture capital for the network of 50 websites that featured an entertaining array of user-generated content. Beginning with a site based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
Romney—are also beginning to question the logic of a strong non-compete regime. I've worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley for seven years and I don't think I ever heard of anyone mentioning non-competes. It was just assumed that you had your View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
spend some or all of their bonuses on others—thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace—are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. Aurora Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
do not receive capital allocations for building or leasing facilities, which represent significant start-up and recurring costs. They must either reduce what they spend on teaching and learning or secure private funding to make the rent.... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne