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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has been on Fortune's list of the 50... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
component firms and sustain overall system-level innovation over the longer term. We present two longitudinal case studies, drawn from the IT industry, which provide contrasting examples of outsourcing strategies in terms of the number of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt the progress flowing from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
plan can be a model. But he thinks it should be looked at on a state-by-state basis — rather than as a one-size-fits-all, federally funded, mandated national plan — to accommodate the particular circumstances of each state. And he warns that even though Massachusetts... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Altruism and solidarity were also significant drivers in the private sector, resulting in large part from the long-standing tradition of charity and civil commitment derived from the region's powerful Catholic background.2 For some... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
before launch.) “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail. And the reverse is true too.” “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail. And the reverse is true too.” Many of those studios are now... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
suppliers in particular. Intel became a near monopoly in microprocessors, and Microsoft, which provided the operating system, is probably the most powerful regulated monopoly in the history of U.S. industry.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
that compensatory fit can only work when there is a powerful informal organization already in existence and when the gains from ambidexterity are substantial. Further, depending on the strength of the informal organization, breakdown in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
none of the passivity displayed by mass media audiences. This paper categorizes five roles for the interactive consumer and draws implications for marketing practice. It concludes that the balance of power over marketplace meaning-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when purchased together. Good A is supplied by a monopolist (e.g., Microsoft) and there is competition in the B goods from vertically differentiated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Chan , Jillian Jordan Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top O Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively Strategy Josh Baron Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 ^ back to top P Area Faculty Name Term Quarter... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
of going with Carlyle as a buyout partner, and then (ii) increasing the value of that business following the buyout. Since the profitability of a buyout depends on finding high-quality deals, the firm has focused to date on leveraging its contacts in the banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details