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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Cost of Friendship

By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov and Yuhai Xuan
We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in venture capital. We find that venture capitalists who share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Making; Identity
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Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan. "The Cost of Friendship." Working Paper, 2014.
  • March 2013
  • Article

Financial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade

Exporting firms face significant up-front costs in product design, marketing, and distribution, which likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Finance
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Becker, Bo, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen. "Financial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade." Review of Corporate Finance Studies 2, no. 1 (March 2013): 1–28.
  • March 2010
  • Article

Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an equilibrium outcome, interpersonal authority over employees (in a world with open disagreement). The paper thus provides... View Details
Keywords: Theory; Assets; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Governance Controls; Power and Influence; Projects; Perspective; Employees
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Van den Steen, Eric J. "Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm." American Economic Review 100, no. 1 (March 2010): 466–490.
  • 2008
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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Guadalupe, Maria, and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-067, November 2008.
  • November 2004 (Revised August 2008)
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KIPP National (A) (Abridged)

The KIPP Academies are, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the Pisces Foundation, to discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Middle School Education; Framework; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Programs; Expansion
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Leschly, Stig. "KIPP National (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 805-068, November 2004. (Revised August 2008.)
  • January 1999 (Revised March 2004)
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Mobile Communications Tokyo, Inc.

Describes a young Japanese telecommunications equipment and software company. The founder and president, Hatsuhiro Inoue, has just seen revenues double over the last two years and expects further rapid growth. The company currently has three product lines:... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Initial Public Offering; Financial Markets; Telecommunications Industry; Tokyo; United States
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Kuemmerle, Walter. "Mobile Communications Tokyo, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 899-077, January 1999. (Revised March 2004.)
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

By: Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein
Several decades of expansion in digital communications, web commerce, and online distribution have altered regional IT labor market returns in the United States. IT occupations experienced similar wage growth as STEM occupations involving IT-related work activities,... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Labor; Wages; Equality and Inequality
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Cao, Ruiqing, and Shane Greenstein. "Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-019, August 2020. (Revised January 2021. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21-015, August 2020)
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Founder-CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship

By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Christopher Stanton
We show theoretically that a critical determinant of the attractiveness of VC-backed entrepreneurship for high-earning potential founders is the expected time to develop a startup’s initial product. This is because founder-CEOs’ cash compensation increases... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Executive Compensation
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Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Christopher Stanton. "Founder-CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-119, May 2020. (Revised September 2023. Forthcoming at Journal of Finance.)
  • January 2006 (Revised August 2006)
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Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2006)

By: John T. Gourville
One of the critical tasks in the marketing of new innovations is predicting demand and rates of diffusion for those products. Focuses on four innovative products from different domains. Although one can speculate on the scope and rate of diffusion for each of these... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Technology Adoption
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Gourville, John T. "Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2006)." Harvard Business School Case 506-050, January 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
  • February 1997
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Errors in Social Judgment: Implications for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution--Part 2: Partisan Perceptions

For the past quarter-century, the field of social cognition has documented a number of ways in which individuals and groups are prone to make characteristic errors when judging others. This note examines the ways in which these tendencies pose difficulties for... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution
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Robinson, Robert J. "Errors in Social Judgment: Implications for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution--Part 2: Partisan Perceptions." Harvard Business School Background Note 897-104, February 1997.
  • 06 May 2019
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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

  • 17 Nov 2016
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Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University

  • September 2013
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Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?

By: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic and P C Early
With a mandate to globalize, business school educators have increasingly embraced global service learning as an important technique for creating global mind-sets and enhancing cultural understanding in students. While we applaud this movement from the domestic to the... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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Mosakowski, Elaine, Goran Calic, and P C Early. "Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?" Academy of Management Learning & Education 12, no. 3 (September 2013): 512–526.
  • 22 May 2012
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Componential Theory of Creativity

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile

    Eliminating unintended bias in personalized policies using Bias Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT) - PNAS

    An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to discriminate based on those... View Details

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    Leadership in Context

    By: Nitin Nohria
    What can we learn from the great business leaders of the 20th century? To answer this question, we have assembled a unique database of 1000 American business leaders, each of whom has left an important legacy. Some of the initial insights we are gleaning from this... View Details
    • 26 Apr 2020
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    Towards Modeling the Variability of Human Attention

    By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Daniel Yamins and Nick Haber
    Children exhibit extraordinary exploratory behaviors hypothesized to contribute to the building of models of their world. Harnessing this capacity in artificial systems promises not only more flexible technology but also cognitive models of the developmental processes... View Details
    Keywords: Exploratory Learning Behaviors; Modeling; Artificial Intelligence; AI and Machine Learning
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    Kim, Kuno, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Daniel Yamins, and Nick Haber. "Towards Modeling the Variability of Human Attention." In Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS) Workshop. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 26, 2020.
    • 2007
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    Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

    By: Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard and Howard Stevenson

    "Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent overview of the many tools available to... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society
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    Wei-Skillern, Jane, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector. SAGE Publications, 2007.
    • November 2024
    • Technical Note

    Is a Single-Family Office Right for You?

    By: Christina R. Wing, George Jackoboice and Justin Huang
    Twenty years ago, the term “family office” was used infrequently and often reserved for the most storied families such as the Rockefellers or the Kennedys. Now, “family office” is on the tip of the tongue of every investor, wealth manager, and company. However, the... View Details
    Keywords: Family Office; Family Business
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    Wing, Christina R., George Jackoboice, and Justin Huang. "Is a Single-Family Office Right for You?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 625-073, November 2024.
    • April–June 2012
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    Hybrid Organizations: The Next Chapter in Sustainable Business

    By: Nardia Haigh and Andrew J. Hoffman
    In this article, we describe how hybrid organizations are developing business models that are competitive and create positive social and environmental change. We discuss the distinctive characteristics of the hybrid business model, both conceptually and in practice. We... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Management; Social Enterprise
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    Haigh, Nardia, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Hybrid Organizations: The Next Chapter in Sustainable Business." Organizational Dynamics 41, no. 2 (April–June 2012): 126–134.
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