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- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
rediscovering experiences from the past will be curiosity provoking and interesting in the future. In Studies 2 and 3, we find that people are particularly likely to underestimate the pleasure of rediscovering ordinary, mundane experiences View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Working Papers Competition As Strategic Interaction By: Eisenhardt, Kathleen, Rory McDonald, and Cheng Gao Abstract—Strategic interaction has been a topic of scholarly inquiry dating back to the 1960s. Drawing on several seminal examples, we explore the nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
existing companies-allowing students to compare the models and discuss the ethics of cloning. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813121-PDF-ENG Pemex (A): In a Free Fall? Maurer, Noel, and Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
impact on their energy-conserving behaviors. Yates and Laskey redesigned the home energy bill to include normative messaging, including feedback on how consumers' energy usage compares to their neighbors' usage. Through early trials of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
entrepreneurial thinking has become a primary goal throughout the world. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic research or comparative analysis to show how the growth of entrepreneurship differs among countries in various stages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
very little attention to the impact of organizations on society. We suggest that the study of organizations could be even stronger if the increasing focus on economic performance were accompanied by comparable attention to the impact... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
Builders Association, 350,000 carriages were sold in New York City alone between 1894 and 1899 compared to 125 cars. The idea that the automobile would someday replace the horse and carriage was, he declared, "a fallacy too absurd to... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
of the policy on firms and employees, the researchers compared the outcome between regions with varying generosity in the loan-guarantee program. Firms that received loan guarantees, and their employees, enjoyed far more stability than... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
management gave service quality (e.g., clean bathrooms and employees greeting customers and making eye contact) a 20 percent weight in importance, as compared with 10 percent for store conditions (e.g., shelf organization, labeling, and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
04-054.) Abstract We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
school companies that have done well with their schools, but they're still tiny compared to the several hundred P-TECH schools in the US alone and then in 28 countries. 2. Get on the ground and build a coalition Kanter: You were an... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other organic food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
capital for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. The results suggest significant variation across firms and financial instruments. Large firms and the largest exporting firms appear less negatively affected compared to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies. We assess the effect on participating firms' innovative performance, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
1990s produced relatively more patents by the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in Internet adoption to those that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
targets compared to dealers who also acquire brands outside of the franchise network. As a consequence the exclusive dealers receive a relatively bigger cut of the total amount of discounts that dealers are offered conditional on their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to diversify risk View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne