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  • 18 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

more sustainable world? In the short term, I’m committed to helping big companies decarbonize because we desperately need them to move today. Long term, I want to use my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

environments. Further, this effect is larger when (i) there are greater cross-border frictions between the parent and subsidiary and (ii) the parents are relatively more involved in their subsidiaries' investment decision-making process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A, Mills, who served as a member of the Obama Cabinet and headed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of productive management across... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

consequences. Reduced-form analysis shows that a firm's choice of index-based benchmarking is 1) driven by its compensation consultants' systematic tendencies and governance-related frictions and 2) associated with lower ROA, suggesting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Xerox system. As Domit recalled, "The [Xerox proprietary] approach was costing around $15K and our approach was less than $1500, not including the IBM PC." 41 Domit's low-cost, "not invented here" system generated View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

cope with the Arab Spring, with war in Syria and Yemen, as well as the threats from Iran and ISIS and continuing friction between Palestinians and Israelis. The key to these issues is Vision 2030—the plan his son, the Crown Prince, has... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Lessons from the Ashes

subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Screen Grab

five-minute video on your smartphone while waiting in line at the post office or riding the bus to school? No friction at all. This new reality has not gone unnoticed at traditional networks like the Disney/ABC Television Group, where... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 How Best-Self Activation Influences Emotions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

  Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20102 August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Does Planning Regulation Protect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel