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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

entrepreneurial firms explicitly devoted to making a profitable business out of conserving and returning valuable resources to productive use, while maintaining public sanitation and in many cases offering nascent environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

consistently net importers of food products that are heavily supported by OECD governments. Using a cross-country regression framework we measure the overall impact of agricultural support policies in rich countries on poverty and average... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

western firms and universities, we test whether contextual knowledge is codified in the west by ethnic migrant inventors and spread by their ethnic networks. Our identification comes from an exogenous shock to the quota of H1B visas, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

well." High-status organizations tend to be buffered from environmental shocks and more likely to survive adverse circumstances and perform better than low-status organizations. Organizational status is usually a function of size and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Lords of Strategy

those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are merely the latest View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Operations Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 John Macomber Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks Finance Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Deepak Malhotra War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity Negotiation,... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it can be coupled with exogenous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy By: Derdenger, Timothy, and Vineet Kumar Abstract—Several key questions in bundling have not been empirically examined: Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

A Force for Good

productive teamwork. Enhance creativity through more flexible organizational structures. Bet on people. Think big. Say no respectfully. McArthur liked to say that the faculty was the “whole ball game,” and in fact, he lavished time and... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

is an attempt to connect these two narratives. I provide early evidence that the growth of public university tuition over the previous two decades is negatively associated with movement into self-employment. Because labor market and education decisions are often made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

current users of core products is introduced: "brand immigrants" who claim to be part of the in-group of core users of the brand and "brand tourists" who do not claim any membership status to the brand community. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise Zoe Cullen Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Product Management Sara McKinley Torti Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) Mitchell Weiss Fall 2024 Q1Q2... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects coming from "yield-oriented" investors. We find some evidence supportive of this channel.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

there, I became interested in the business side of things, so I decided to apply to b-school and was shocked when I was accepted into HBS! Summer Internship: Design Operations Lead at Toast in Boston Little one’s favorites: Elephant and... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

on, I got a job fixing rotary compressors in refrigerators. DM: Mm-hmm [affirmative]. JI: I was leading, kind of, 7,000 people. I was 32 years old. It was the biggest product recall in the history of GE. So it was a crisis every day. And... View Details