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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
with higher exposure to sustainability issues, greater institutional and socially responsible investment fund ownership, and coverage from analysts with lower portfolio complexity. Moreover, we document intra-industry information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
unique data set on the career histories of Indian bureaucrats supports the key predictions of our framework. We find that politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance as a means of control. High-skilled bureaucrats face less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as mechanisms to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
influenced not just by the decisions it makes and the assets inside the company, but also by the surrounding business environment in the locations at which the company operates. The business environment shapes the skills, knowledge, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
can also threaten a company's ability to compete. The difficulty is that fully understanding customers' needs is often a costly and inexact process. Even when customers know precisely what they want, they often cannot transfer that... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
results for those engaged in it. Those organizations thought to be most able to extend their boundaries are those able to work in a "componentized" manner, with "certain pieces of technology or innovation that can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
was achieved by these three countries. In Mexico, a strong and dense network replaced for some of the institutions that promoted financial development and growth in Brazil. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-008.pdf Capturing Benefits from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
demand." John Van Slyke commented that "business people have the leadership skills and command over the kind of technology that is needed, (but) the record of business, particularly the financiers, has been to distort health... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
technology and innovation in ways that streamline interactions with federal agencies, like online form filing. Stars align to fix a broken tax system Mihir Desai, Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and professor of law at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
during tumultuous change—the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Civil War in the United States—yet accomplished an enormous amount during this time of ferment: for example, technology transfer to China,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
therefore no reliable way to transfer codified knowledge about methods and practices across the organization. Furthermore, while "red team reviews" —progress reviews conducted by NASA's most experienced managers—proved... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
the empirical facts we observe. Our results illustrate how financial innovation can mitigate investor behavioral biases. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53859 Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant Inventors: View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity—from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments determine policy—is less well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
instructions to work with the community. This is an interesting dimension of globalization that calls for further study: multinationals transfer not only their technology, but also their values and social policies. María Marta Llosa,... View Details