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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
companies. Over the past two decades, organizations have sought some of these benefits through knowledge management databases but with limited success. That’s because determining who has expertise and understanding the context in which it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
proposed to clamp down on NPEs but none have passed—in part because no one knows how many NPE lawsuits are genuine and how many represent trolling. To understand the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities, Cohen, Gurun, and Kominers used a View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
like-mindedness lead to narrow decision-making, to the detriment of the deal? Working with people similar to yourself can lead to poor decisions.Photo: iStockPhoto The research began with a database of 3,510 individual venture capitalists... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
same genre in the sense that it is based on extensive quantitative research of a large database followed by more detailed examinations of a subset of organizations. But instead of success it deals with failure and its causes. The sample... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
subscribers every month. The system was extremely complicated. Computers were not using the same operating systems so there were a lot of protocol compatibility problems. There were no databases that could be accessed. So the... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
behavior. The leading causes of passenger disruptions on airplane flights. (Source: Research Report: Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage.) Source: Micaela Brody They pored through a private database of all... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
from customers. In response, BBA's CEO Julian Boyden and VP of Technology John Wright investigated the option of shifting more innovation activities to customers. The company developed an Internet-based tool containing a large database of... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
government institutional development influences the extent to which CSR communications are symbolically decoupled from substantive CSR activities. Our database includes all CSR reports issued by the approximately 1,600 publicly listed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, we analyzed the state of integrated reporting in 23 countries. In collaboration with Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), we used its proprietary View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
concluded that there was no need to translate cases, since translations often bring more trouble than they are worth: translations into Portuguese, for example, might be more appropriate for people in Portugal than for Brazilians. Others called for a Web-based View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
(on Technology & Innovation and Management Research Methodology), the 14-volume encyclopedia now offers users a fully searchable online resource linked to the wider literature and to an associated database of handbooks and journals in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
sophisticated database software, and the Internet would enable them to actually deliver on the promise of customized offerings to each individual customer. But that hasn't happened to the extent it should have, says Cleveland-based... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
subsidized by the organizations employing the executives that participate in them. To understand the ongoing transformation of the industry, we use a large database of interviews with participants in executive development programs at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
current research on document management, with a view to identifying a potential spin-off. Shao and Newton had both worked together at Ingres, a database software company. Shao had been a member of one other startup company and had spent... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
itself. What do you think? Original Article Creative Destruction, by Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan is a compilation of recent research based on a thirty-eight-year database comprising 1,008 selected U.S. corporations. The authors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
a computerized database of incompatible patient-donor pairs. In addition to direct exchanges, the paper described exchanges that included three- and four-way matches—as well as a system in which a donor could give a kidney to a stranger... View Details