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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Science Complex—four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011—the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard's 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. New Management Skills Needed Both in the scale and scope of Harvard's ambitions and in... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and hiking in New Hampshire. Now that we’re back in LA, we miss the proximity of all of those things but 100 percent definitely don’t miss the weather.” What advice do you have for HBS students interested in launching their own startups?... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and value of specific interstate relations. Results indicate that network-weaving organizations are easier to operate when they encompass proximate and similar actors, yet they also reap rewards for bringing together otherwise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
growth in funds focused on underserved populations, and limited partners have shown more interest in increasing the number of women and people of color in venture firms and within the venture-backed founder community. “Whether it is in VC or entrepreneurship, you need... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
need to be proximate to and fluent in the markets and the people that you’re serving. If you’re looking to invest in the best, then you have to expand your horizons and your network.” —Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998), founder and CEO, Landit... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
co-movement (or pay-referent sensitivity, PRS) to be more pronounced in geographically concentrated firms where we expect divisional proximity to facilitate information sharing about pay and magnify peer comparisons. To separate the peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
University Hospital, Martini was a "hospital in a hospital" in close proximity to other hospital departments and services. By 2013, Martini Klinik had become the largest prostate cancer treatment program in the world with 5,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
funds focused on underserved populations, and limited partners have shown more interest in increasing the number of women and people of color in venture firms and within the venture-backed founder community. “Whether it is in VC or entrepreneurship, you need to be... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems are not too severe, such as more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
financial system. In this article, the authors consider how the economic landscape in the West will be affected by oil exporters' new investment strategies and interests over the next decades, how proximate emerging markets will be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
After a nine-year break, I’ve gone back to work. My foot is still lightly on the gas pedal, but I have consciously chosen not to accelerate until more is worked out. I will say that proximity of work to home has been a key success element... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Evidence from Journal Editor Rotations By: Parsons, Christopher, J. Brogaard, and J. Engelberg Abstract—Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
and pairs researching similar clinical areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and potential knowledge spillovers when their own contributions are less fungible and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic advantage by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
no. 5 (May 2007): 760-776 Abstract Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
professional relationships may "bridge" the asymmetric information. This bridge may be particularly strong if both firms were financed by the same venture capital firm. Third, geographic proximity may also reduce the asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves capitalizing on similarities or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
fungible, and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic advantage by proximate competitors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-071.pdf Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies. Then, I inductively isolate two principal dimensions that can be used to characterize the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
for the degree to which you are dependent on proximity for quality. Designing future work arrangements needs to be based on what the work requires from us, not on our preferences or the length of our commute. For some companies, the work... View Details
Keywords: All Industries