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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing political powers at the IASB and own potential political power at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these dimensions, I offer predictions, ceteris paribus, on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
findings, we consider both information and social factors. We find that firms are more likely to protect proximate employees in soft information industries (i.e., when information is difficult to transfer over long distances). However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
new means of expression. Adams’s “consulting work yielded key insights for the company and also for his own practice by giving him close proximity to cutting-edge photographic technologies and the space in which to help design them,”... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
production capabilities continuously. The other two clusters studied—wooden chairs in Manzano and furniture in Livenza—show a similar pattern. Taking root in the 1800s due to the proximity of raw materials, both clusters boomed from the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
markets for upstream inputs such as scientific knowledge, proximity also may matter for licensing, which they conceptualize as downstream end markets for small biotechnology firms. They examine whether co-location affects the likelihood... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
flexible and strategic, but value is created in proximity and in phasing. Uses need to be near each other for both economic competitiveness and to save the environmental costs of long car transit. Without density, there is no... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1) agglomeration saves transport... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
funds focused on underserved populations, and limited partners have shown more interest in increasing the number of women and people of color in venture firms and within the venture-backed founder community. “Whether it is in VC or entrepreneurship, you need to be... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
to touch them. Nobody wants to recognize their mistakes, and so they’re left there and the consequences kind of become worse and worse. So I learned in that case that the proximity of the boss to everybody in the frontline and the... View Details
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the model, and feasibility of the concept. People : The individual (through its team, advisors, or partnerships) has or can get relevant skills, contacts, industry knowledge, and experience, including capability to support and engage a diverse team and community of... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
physical proximity to communities of opportunity. The Engineering Department and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University have contributed a great deal to West Coast management, if there is such a thing. At the risk of using... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
size and close proximity can help smaller brands instead of harming them. We find that support for small brands goes up when faced with a competitive threat from large brands, versus when they are in competition with brands that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Science Complex—four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011—the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard's 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. New Management Skills Needed Both in the scale and scope of Harvard's ambitions and in... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and hiking in New Hampshire. Now that we’re back in LA, we miss the proximity of all of those things but 100 percent definitely don’t miss the weather.” What advice do you have for HBS students interested in launching their own startups?... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
of Quest Diagnostics who now serves as dean of Boston University School of Management. Freeman said that when he became dean, his plush CEO-like office was on the top floor, so he decided to move to a small windowless office in close View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA 2007, started a family. And... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
co-movement (or pay-referent sensitivity, PRS) to be more pronounced in geographically concentrated firms where we expect divisional proximity to facilitate information sharing about pay and magnify peer comparisons. To separate the peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
mandated to disclose information. We find particularly rapid improvement among establishments located close to their headquarters and among establishments with proximate siblings, especially when the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne