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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://hbr.org/2012/09/will-working-mothers-take-your-company-to-court/ar/1 Working PapersColocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors:Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, and Karim Lakhani Abstract We present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Can you design processes to reflect the promises implicit in hard-wiring?; (4) Do you have the people, incentives, and technology to deliver on the promise?; (5) Are you big enough?; (6) Do you have the financial capability to protect against downside contingencies?;... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
(September 2008): 527-539 Abstract The legal system is a domain of potential relevance for psychologists, whether in the capacity of expert witness or citizen juror. In this article, the authors apply a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
opportunities for changes in corporate culture to encourage sustainability. While the U.S. chemical industry remained defensive and focused on legal compliance, there was a greater proactivity among the German firms. This paper stresses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Empire to another. So in other words, the individual different historical actors were the ones who transferred the knowledge of violence. It’s about logics, and ideas, and bureaucracies, but it’s ultimately about people. Legal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
secure we get. I think it will be the exception rather than the rule. "There is a serious education issue here," Kerlavage continued, "and we need to have very open debates and broad dissemination about what the technologies and risks are. We also have to have our... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
suppliers that adopt legalization structures (operationalized as management system standards) and worker participation structures (unions) and find that the combination of these structures amplifies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s, however, Rambus engaged in an extended campaign to abuse the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
insurance crisis of 2002-2003. The study tracks the promotion and use of a set of accounting and risk controls put in place to control the troubled insurance division and discusses how and why particular management control systems shift... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
transferred to the squatters. With the remaining 4 lawsuits still pending, 62 percent of the squatters now hold title to their land, while 38 percent do not. As a result, squatters who enjoyed the security of property rights existed in proximity to those with no View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the problems in participants' incentives and in legal rules. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pitfalls-and-fraud-in-online-advertising-research-jar-jun2014.pdf August 2014 Economic Journal Highway to Success: The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
alliances and their somewhat checkered record might offer a word of caution here. They would ask: Do the justifiably selfish purposes that bring an organization to a strategic alliance contain the seeds of the alliance's demise? The technological, social, and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
for sovereign debts are minimal since little can be used as collateral and the ability of a court to force a sovereign entity to comply has been extremely limited, especially given the lack of a supranational legal authority capable of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
household decision making and the development of the financial system more broadly. What interests me in the topic is the extent to which the issues involved link developments in households, the economy, and public policy in the United... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
invent a product, a large company can’t just swoop in and steal it and dare the little guy to fight it. NPEs claim they are protecting these little guys. Opponents, however, say they are exploiting imperfections in the legal system. Cohen... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel