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  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914–1947) By: Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

goal is not to identify the "best" program, but rather to lay out the range of innovations to meet the needs of heterogeneous potential savers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-075.pdf   Cases & Course Materials2006 Hurricane View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

commanders practice a form of analytic triage by focusing on two negative possibilities, discarding almost everything else. The first element is anticipating the enemy's most likely course of action. The second is preparing for the biggest, most damaging View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

valuation of volatile stocks, which we contend measures the economy’s risk appetite. Our novel proxy for risk appetite explains 41% of the variation in the one-year real rate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Centralization is predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary sales data and we use a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting overlooked customers with a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

AFC. However, a broader set of emerging market countries show weaker liquidity, solvency, and profitability indicators. More countries are also in the Altman Z-score's “grey zone,” that is, at risk for corporate distress. Regression... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

dealings with one another. To assign human rights obligations to MNEs and their managers risks undermining this ideal. The paper situates this argument in relation to the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

risks for physicians on innovation may be positive or negative, depending on the characteristics of the technology. Empirically, we find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Harvard Business School Case 109-017 This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

In his novel I Come as a Thief, Louis Auchincloss introduces us to Tony Lowder, a lawyer in his early forties. Tony and his wife have two children. He works for the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but his job is... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

pure e-tailer as well as two competing multichannel retailers. Even though self-matching is likely to reduce a retailer's profits, with some consumers paying the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support the war effort.... [T]he Military Planning Division was a key component, benefiting from what proved to be a novel cooperation among science, industry, and the military." Christopher G. Hartman, Advance Man: The Life and Times of... View Details