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  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Paid transfers of IP addresses would better allocate resources to those who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to facilitate an IP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative attractiveness of two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

unavailable at this time. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43686 The Spatial Diffusion of Technology Authors:Comin, Diego A., Mikhail Dmitriev, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Abstract We empirically study View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the small share of decedents who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

although research on this topic has often focused on high technology manufacturing companies, I have written extensively on the service sector, on business groups and alliances rather than hierarchical corporations, and on the different... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial management and strongly... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

ambitious goal of creating a showcase high-tech city from scratch. The collaboration brought together software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, builders, and technology corporations. Taking a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

  PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

related to technological orientation. Second, we find that the adoption of customer orientation is positively related to the profitability of both Japanese and American entrepreneurial firms, although the effect is stronger in the U.S. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

regularly ascribed to culture, Latin sensuousness, and machismo attitudes, this article shows that the growth of the industry was historically contingent. It was shaped by corporations, especially Avon and Colgate, that transferred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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