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24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2010
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One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many executives.” This happened at View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before,... View Details

March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details

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16 Apr 2007
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

whether to share (offer content that other peers can download) or to freeride (download from others and not offer content for others to download). Sharing content is costlier than freeriding as it entails committing computing resources... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni asked probing questions of HBS... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

thwart its Level II opponents. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-091_6caacd58-20c1-4257-9be5-204972ad4b4c.pdf December 2014 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

regulate one's mood in line with the social context, on congruity. Two experiments find that when low self-monitors imagine a context that differs in valence from their mood, they feel more distinctive from the environment while high... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
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COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull

In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the... View Details

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October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora

YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India

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Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry

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01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006

life “a credible example of how an individual, with faith, hard work, love, and support, can achieve her purpose.” — GE Brendan Kennealey Inner-city school founder, social entrepreneur, dreamer Kennealey Brendan Kennealey began to hone... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

formation of a repertory company, and how character and temperament mattered quite as much as acting ability; just his problem, he said—he had to balance his types too, and their science or seamanship weighed little against the kind of... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion video in electronic cases, and... View Details

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

PublicationsBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract The long-standing argument... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World

with themselves and made that commitment. There are other things that I would also recommend that, again, are part of the baby steps. One thing that is proven out in the social science research is the View Details

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

that may be to do. In this article, the authors look at research from behavioral economics, social psychology, and other disciplines and offer practical tactics for leaders hoping to project a healthy amount of both qualities. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015 International Encyclopedia of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne