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  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Divestment or Engagement? New Research on Innovation in the Energy Sector

    Why you should watch: A new and important NBER working paper, by Cohen, Gurun and Nguyen, takes a long hard look at innovation in the energy industry - and concludes that divestment campaigns targeted at fossil fuel companies may not just be ineffective.... View Details
    • 05 Mar 2020
    • News

    Green Light

    made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

      Jeffrey F. Rayport

      Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

      • 28 Jun 2016
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      June 28, 2016

      raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 02 Sep 2018
      • News

      Havana Rising

      requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight View Details
      Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
      • 29 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 29

      yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 03 Jun 2016
      • News

      Again in a Great City

      thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
      Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
      • April 2017
      • Case

      The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
      The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details
      Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia
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      • July 2023
      • Case

      HealthVerity: Real World Data and Evidence

      By: Satish Tadikonda
      Andrew Kress (CEO and founder) and his team had built a promising marketplace business at HealthVerity serving its core market in healthcare, with a focus on pharmaceutical R&D and services. Thus far, HealthVerity’s products had been unique to the pharma and pharma... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Marketing
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      MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

      By: Robert C. Merton

      Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
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      • Research Summary

      Overview

      In industries characterized by extreme dynamism, complexity, and uncertainty, formal structure often “falls behind” actual work processes. The nature of work in these environments evolves continuously while formal structure can only do so at specific times in discrete... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Identity; Identity Work; Strategy; Strategic Change; Collaboration; Cross-functional Integration; Cognition; Organizational Evolution; Organizational Alignment; Social Media
      • 31 May 2011
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      First Look: May 31

        PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Aug 2016
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      August 9, 2016

      observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 May 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

      Every bet—large or small, corporate or personal—puts you into a game. And whatever the game, at some point your participation ends. Sometimes it ends because the game is over for all the players, sometimes because your participation is terminated View Details
      Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
      • 2013
      • Book

      Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

      By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
      Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society
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      ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

      Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

      • 09 Aug 2011
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      First Look: August 9

      right questions—and work through the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game. Read the paper:... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      University; BA, Biology, Yale University Dr. Andrew Dervan is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Cajal Neuroscience. Prior to Cajal, Andrew was a senior director of business development at Celgene... View Details