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  • 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
  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

further demonstrate that financing risk has the greatest impact on firms with the most real option value. Hence, the mix of projects funded and type of investors who are active varies with the level of financing risk in the economy. We also highlight that some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

Cohen's revolutionary program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is used for peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... 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
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

to raise additional capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53962 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Internet, it doesn't take a billion dollar R&D platform to discover the next technology platform." Jim Winkelmann agreed, but with a caveat: "The rebirth as always (will) be in the entrepreneurial sector creating... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

his Time]. Finding longitude at sea was one of the toughest economic, scientific, and technological problems up until the eighteenth century. Isaac Newton said the only way to solve the problem was through astronomical methods, but he was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—We study the role of ethnic Chinese/Indian migrant inventors in transferring contextual knowledge across borders and the role of ethnic networks in further disseminating such knowledge. Using a unique... 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
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 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 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

and technology transfers to the developing world. We have a chance to design these institutions in such a way as to avoid some of the pitfalls that befell our institutions of development and humanitarian... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

Indian scientists to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s, before noticeably leveling off after 2000 and declining in the case of India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

neighborhood 3,000 miles away. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307080 Supplement to InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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