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- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
National Geographic Genographic project (Inga Ness), Trendwatcher (Gerald Nanninga), and Wikipedia (Adnan Younis Lodhi and Sameer Kamat). In spite of the advantages of putting customers to work, a number of cautions were raised as well.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
and how they are evolving. It gives an idea of current best practices and gaps and projects what the future requirements might be. The second discipline, building and editing, is an assessment of one's own channels with a view to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
program on dynamic capabilities needs to be reset around the fundamental strategic problem facing firms: how to identify and select capabilities that lead to competitive advantage. To this end, the article develops a framework that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract—Selecting among alternative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
writers are excluded from the market for earlier-stage ideas, restricting their choices to developing the idea fully or abandoning it; writers who have a choice select better ideas to sell at a later stage and sell worse ideas at an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
macro components. The micro component comes from the selection of low beta stocks. The macro component comes from the selection of low beta countries or industries. The two parts both contribute to the low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the related learning process. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
constituencies—Železný and the Czech people—had interests that were no longer congruent with CME's interests. CME could have spun off a piece of CME to the Czech public to create more public support for its interests. Finally, I think CME illustrates the critical... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical observation, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then withdrew a plan for an IPO. To account for View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Competitiveness Author:Richard H.K. Vietor and Matthew Weinzierl Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
development project at BBA might progress in the following way: A customer requests a meaty flavor for a soy product, and the sample must be delivered within a week. BBA marketing professionals and flavorists jump into action, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
allows for non-random selection in and out of self-employment and gradual learning about the entrepreneurial earnings process. The model accurately fits entry patterns into self-employment by age, with returns to entrepreneurship varying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and find that adverse selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
It took more than a century for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks thirty selected blue chip stocks, to hit 20,000, but it finally happened last Wednesday – a milestone marked by banner headlines and happy investors. In a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory management, and View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
wireless solutions. As Reddy recalled his second meeting, Chandra "tore the Unimobile business plan apart," noting that the revenue projections were unrealistic and the business focus was too diffuse—but still he invested in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
and the October 17 deadline for extending the debt limit. Beyond that, if you look at sources of profitability for a lot of the select companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and even the top end of the S&P 500, there are other... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner