• 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories about some of the world's most successful entertainment brands,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

desirable, if their message needs reinforcement, and if they are opting for the technology they want others to use. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49666 October 2015 Harvard Business Review How Smart,... View Details

• 19 Oct 2015
• Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

research to help address. EPA senior attorney-advisor Jon Silberman says he attended with potential research questions related to the agency’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, which aims to take advantage of new tools and approaches, such as advanced emissions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

• 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

• 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

Japan-such as obtaining corporate sponsors, advertising signage at the home field, and visiting Japanese fans traveling to the U.S. to see these stars perform. In addition to treating team efforts at growing local Japanese community... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

• 10 Mar 2021
• News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

• 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 01 Sep 2008
• News

Building a Better MBA

nature of business itself. It’s more global, more technology dependent, and less hierarchical. Knowledge-based industries are overtaking older, more basic industries. And the pace of change is quickening. “So we have to understand how the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

• 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

risks. This shift is attenuated for firms with stronger technological capabilities and is more pronounced for firms whose home markets have weak IP systems. Using data from the global smartphone market, we find support for these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which consumers use digital media to communicate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 01 Sep 2017
• News

History’s Lessons

Southern leaders. On August 19, he drafted a potentially momentous letter to a Democratic politician and newspaper editor, ending the communication with this proposition: “If Jefferson Davis wishes...to know what I would do if he were to... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson