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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
examining corporate and nonprofit growth for close to 1,000 communities over the period from 1987 to 2002. In addition to the interviews for this study, we have also created a database that enables us to understand the statistical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
product is being put together, it has been possible for manufacturers to leave those identification markers in the product. So later on when the same customer calls with an inquiry or a complaint, it is now so easy to go back to the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
public service, because it makes this data, most of which exist in archival databases of the EPA, much more readily accessible," says Michael Toffel, an expert on industry self-regulation and an assistant professor in the Technology... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
becomes evident that digital communications will fundamentally reshape the way businesses market, and often deliver, goods and services. The current communications revolution is hardly the first to be encountered by marketers. Prior upheavals occurred with the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent co-authorship to investigate the effects of collaboration networks on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reducing the optimal taxation level. We find evidence consistent with these predictions and the entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
we could only dream of just a few years ago, ranging from unobtrusive physiological and neurological measures to massive databases on billions of individuals' decisions about consuming, saving, investing, and living their lives. As... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Siliconix Shareholders Litigation that a freeze-out executed as a tender offer is not. This paper presents the first systematic empirical evidence on post-Siliconixfreeze-outs. Using a new database of all Delaware freeze-outs executed in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
database of innovations in both technique and equipment. From the data, we knew that—at least until recently—users (including user-manufacturers) were the primary source of innovation. Third, the underlying technologies—fiberglass hand... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
has only about 30,000 genes—far fewer than was previously believed. What's more, the genetic difference between people, indeed, between people and animals, is relatively small. Genomics is the most destructive force in the history of medicine.—Alan Crane With a genetic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Markets oral history database at the Harvard Business School to examine business leaders’ perceptions of political risk over time between the 1970s and the present day, employing NVivo coding of the dataset to move beyond simple... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
respectively, I find that the identity of a new industry is in fact the result of an interaction between contexts and entrepreneurial agency. With the help of oral histories, magazine primary sources, and other databases I show that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract— Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Abstract—One of the most important transitions of China from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy was the emergence of entrepreneurship in two different forms of private enterprise, viz. getihu and siyingqiye. Using a unique View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
promising area, XTV recruited Howard Shao and John Newton, both former engineering executives at the Ingress Corporation (a relational database manufacturer), to lead the technical effort. Shao spent the first six months assessing the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel